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Published on: April 14, 2014
Simultaneous bilateral optic neuropathy and myelitis revealing paraneoplastic neurological syndrome associated with
Timothée Carette1, Nicolas Mulquin2, Vincent van Pesch3
1Department of Neurology, CHU UCL Namur site Godinne, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Yvoir, Belgium.
Abstract:
Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are immune-mediated complications of cancer associated with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations. Optic neuropathy (ON) and myelitis are frequent manifestations of multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optic spectrum disorders but are considered as non-classical in PNS. Here, we report a case of PNS revealed by simultaneous bilateral ON and myelitis related to a cluster of three neural autoantibodies, in the setting of small cell lung cancer.

