GENERALITIES ON PARANEOPLASIC SYNDROMES IN BRONCHOPULMONARY CANCER
Abstract:
Paraneoplastic syndromes are nonspecific clinical and biological manifestations that appear
in patients with maligne neoplasia. Those manifestations may precede the tumour sympthomatology,
may appear concomitantly with this one or may pursuit it.In general, paraneoplastic syndromes have a
great importance, because are present in 15% of the patients with cancer and 70% of the patients with
bronchopulmonary cancer may present one of the syndromes during the evolution of the disease. The
paraneoplastic syndromes appear only if there is a maligne tumour. The sympthomatology of the
paraneoplastic syndromes is varied and polymorph, each syndrome presenting a specific clinical and
biological picture.
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