NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY CARCINOMA
- VernacularTitle:肺癌的神经系统表现
- Author:
Dinglie SHEN
;
Lichuan YANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
pulmonary carcinoma;
nervous system metastasis;
remote effect
- From:
Journal of Chongqing Medical University
1986;0(04):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The authors report 105 cases of neurologic manifestation ia 822 patients with pulmonary carcinoma, with an incidence of neurological complication of 19.5%. The neurologic manifestations were the first symptom in 64 cases (61%), which showed orderly as headache, hemi-plegia, seizure, paraplegia, mental sympioms, backache, vertigo, sciatica, facial palsy, etc. In these 105 cases there were 93 suffered metastasis, which involved cerebrum, spinal cord, meninges, cerebellum etc. Twelve patients were nonmetastatic, among whom, carcinomaious encephalopathy, myopathy, dermtomyositis etc were observed
