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- ダイ12カイ トクシマ イガッカイショウ ジュショウ ロンブン ホスピス トクシマ ニ オケル マッキガン カンジャ ノ ボウ シュヨウセイ シンケイ ショウコウグン ノ ハッショウ ヒンド ト ソノ リンショウテキ イギ
- Neurological syndrome of advanced cancer patients in Hospice Tokushima
- ホスピス トクシマ ニオケル マッキ ガン カンジャ ノ ボウシュヨウセイ シンケイ ショウコウグン ノ ハッショウ ヒンド ト ソノ リンショウテキ イギ
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Abstract
Neurological complications in advanced cancer occur frequently and therefore an adequate neurological assessment must always be part of patient evaluation in hospice palliative care. Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes are rare, probably affecting less than 1 per cent of patients with cancer, even if the most commonly associated neoplasms, such as small-cell lung cancer and ovarian cancer are considered. Neurological complications were studied in 127 inpatients with advanced cancers. Neurological complications were seen in up to 40 per cent of the patients. The most frequent symptom was derilium, followed in order to lethargy, paraplegia, depression, dementia, hemiplegia, restlessness, aphasia, stupor, facial palsy, recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy, convulsion, and myastenia. Those symptoms were seen in patients in hepatic encephalitis(12), metastatic brain tumor(9), metastatic spinal cord injury(8), depression(4), paraneoplastic syndrome(4), hypercalcemia(2), senile dementia(2), peripheral neuritis(2), and cerebral infarction(2). Of the four patients with paraneoplastic syndrome, one patient had both anti-Hu antibody and anti-VGCC antibody and two patients had anti-neuronal nuclear antibodies. These results indicate that paraneoplastic neurological syndromes are associated more than 1 per cent of patients with advanced cancer.
Journal
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- 四国医学雑誌
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四国医学雑誌 60 (3-4), 94-98, 2004-08-25
徳島医学会
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1050845762664734208
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- NII Article ID
- 40006663375
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- NII Book ID
- AN00102041
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- ISSN
- 00373699
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- NDL BIB ID
- 7278782
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Article Type
- journal article
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- IRDB
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- CiNii Articles