title: [Paraneoplastic syndromes affecting the nervous system and the musculature associated with malignant tumours of the thyroid gland (author's transl)].
abstract: Two cases are presented of the paraneoplastic syndrome in patients with a malignant tumour of the thyroid gland. The first case presented with a pseudomyasthenic syndrome (in conjunction with a haemangio endothelioma) and the second case with a form of neuromyopathy (in conjunction with a partly solid and partly hormone-producing thyroid carcinoma). The pathogenesis and classification of the so-called carcinomatous neuropathies is briefly outlined and the initially atypical course taken by the first case is discussed.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005132:Eye Manifestations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000175:diagnosis; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D009461:Neurologic Manifestations; D009384:Paraneoplastic Endocrine Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Paraneoplasien des Nervensystems und der Muskulatur bei Struma maligna