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ArticleCureus2020

Postinfectious Cerebellar Syndrome With Paraneoplastic Antibodies: An Association or Coincidence?

Sajid Hameed, Mukesh Kumar, Pal Satyajit Singh Athwal, Sukhmanii Kahlon, Nimit Dalal

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Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Are there any differences between adult-onset cerebellitis and childhood cerebellitis?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.

Sajid HameedNeurology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, PAK.
Mukesh KumarNeurology, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, Larkana, PAK.
Pal Satyajit Singh AthwalInternal Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, IND.
Sukhmanii KahlonInternal Medicine, Medical University of the Americas, Camps, KNA.
Nimit DalalInternal Medicine, Trumbull Regional Medical Center, Warren, USA.
Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University · PKInstitute of Medical Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cerebellar ataxia has a very broad differential diagnosis in adults, including paraneoplastic and postinfectious etiologies. We report a case of a 56-year-old male presented with right-sided cerebellar dysfunction preceded by fever and headache. He was diagnosed with subacute postinfectious cerebellar ataxia. Blood serology showed the presence of anti-amphiphysin and anti-Ri (ANNA-2, antineuronal nuclear autoantibody type 2) antibodies, which have a known association with cerebellar syndrome. The patient subsequently improved with the steroids. Although no evidence of an underlying tumor was found in the patient, the presence of the paraneoplastic antibodies remains a mystery. We suggest a probable association of these antibodies with the postinfectious cerebellar syndrome.

Indexed as

acute cerebellitisanti-amphiphysin antibodiesanti-ri antibodiesparaneoplastic cerebellitispostinfectious cerebellitis

Identifiers

PMID33029469
PMCPMC7529500
OpenAlexW3081659993

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