Paraneoplastic syndromes
By: Robert B. Darnell, MD, PhD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Senior Attending Physician, Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Jerome B. Posner, MD, Evelyn Frew American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, George C. Cotzias Chair of Neuro-oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Contributors: Posner, Jerome B., 1932- author
Series: Contemporary neurology series -- 79; Contemporary neurology series -- 79.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780199772735
Subjects: Paraneoplastic syndromes; Paraneoplastic Syndromes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History; title: Clinical findings, treatment and prognosis; title: Pathogenesis; title: Brain (cerebrum); title: Brain (cerebellum and brainstem); title: Spinal cord; title: Cranial nerves; title: Dorsal root ganglia and peripheral nerves; title: Neuromuscular junction and muscle; title: Systemic syndromes (with neurologic implications); title: Nuclear/nucleolar antibodies; title: Cytoplasmic antibodies; title: Synaptic/channel antibodies; title: Anti-retinal/optic nerve antibodies; title: Thoracic cancers; title: Breast/gynecologic/testicular cancer; title: Hematologic cancers/miscellaneous solid tumors.