ArticleCase reports in oncological medicine2020
Regionally Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma Associated with Paraneoplastic Anti-
Article in Case reports in oncological medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neurological autoimmunity in patients with non-pulmonary neuroendocrine neoplasms: clinical manifestations and neural autoantibody profiles.European journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Paraneoplastic NMDA encephalitis, a case report and an extensive review of available literature.Radiology case reports · 2024Article
- Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes of the Central Nervous System: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Subacute sensory neuronopathy associated with Merkel cell carcinoma with unknown primary: a case report with literature review.Journal of neurology · 2022Review
- Autoimmune and Paraneoplastic Chorea: A Review of the Literature.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare and aggressive cutaneous neuroendocrine cancer with a high risk of recurrence and metastasis. MCC is generally associated with advanced age, fair skin, sun exposure, immunosuppression, and in the majority of cases, the Merkel cell polyomavirus. Neuroendocrine malignancies are associated with a variety of paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS), characterized as autoimmune responses to malignancy-associated expression of neural antigens. Our literature review underscores previous case reports of MCC-associated PNS with voltage-gated calcium channel (VGCC) and anti-Hu (or ANNA-1) autoantibodies. We present the case of a 59-year-old male with regionally metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma complicated by the paraneoplastic manifestation of anti-
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