Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration Secondary to BRAF Mutant Melanoma Metastasis from an Occult Primary Cancer

Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration Secondary to BRAF Mutant Melanoma Metastasis from an Occult Primary Cancer

Melanoma metastasis from an unknown primary cancer has an incidence of 3.2% among melanoma patients. Furthermore, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare, occurring in 1–3% of patients with malignancies. Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is one of the classic PNS and is chara...

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Main Authors: Omar Jiménez-Zarazúa, Lourdes Noemí Vélez-Ramírez, María Alcocer-León, Diego Armando Hernández-Domínguez, Juana Elizabeth Tadeo-González, María Andrea Martínez-Rivera, Martín Daniel Alejandro López-González, Sandra Xaviera Lizeth Tafoya-Rojas, Jaime Daniel Mondragón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2020-06-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncology
Subjects:
melanoma
nervous system paraneoplastic syndrome
occult primary neoplasm
paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
proto-oncogene protein b-raf
Online Access:https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/507729

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