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Motor Neuronopathy Associated With Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus, Bhojo A Khealani, R. Qureshi, Mohammad Wasay Mar 2004

Motor Neuronopathy Associated With Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus, Bhojo A Khealani, R. Qureshi, Mohammad Wasay

Department of Medicine

Neurologic paraneoplastic syndromes (NPS) are remote neurologic effects, except metastasis, of systemic cancers. These are a rare group of disorders, commonly associated with small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC).1 Various NPS have been described, including motor neuronopathy. The motor neuronopathy has commonly been described with small cell carcinoma of lung, breast cancer and lymphoproliferative disorders.2,3 We report a case of motor neuronopathy in association with large cell adenocarcinoma of esophagus. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of motor neuronopathy associated with adenocarcinoma of the esophagus.