Paraneoplastic Syndromes Involving the Nervous System
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · +1 more institution
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Abstract
Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes are incited by a tumor outside the nervous system that produces a characteristic antigen of the nervous system. An immune response against the ectopic tumor antigen not only damages nerve tissue but also inhibits growth of the tumor.
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- Medicine
- Nervous system
- Central nervous system
- Antigen
- Pathology
- Immune system
- Peripheral nervous system
- Tumor antigen
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