title: [Paraneoplastic myelopathy, probably necrotizing myelopathy: apropos of a case associated with anaplastic small cell carcinoma].
abstract: We comment a case of necrotizing myelopathy, a rare neurological paraneoplastic syndrome, that it was the first manifestation of a microcit anaplastic carcinoma. The diagnostic was made with the clinical and radiological base, after we deprive another diseases with similar clinical manifestations and the result of the Magnetic resonance image of the nervous system. We didn't obtain permise for the necropsic study.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Policlínico Vigo (POVISA), Vigo (Pontevedra).
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vázquez Almuiña
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Bermúdez
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mosquera
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: del Río
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Touza
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Muñoz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure; D009192:Myelography; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology