title: Rehabilitation treatment options for a patient with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration.
abstract: Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is a neurologic syndrome associated with carcinoma. Medical management is limited to treatment of the underlying malignancy with excision, plasmapharesis, immunosuppression, or chemotherapy. We report on the case of a woman with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration who showed improvements in functional mobility after 3 wk of comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation. This case demonstrates the functional improvements of one patient with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration after intensive rehabilitation and describes the specific treatment interventions utilized.
authors.affiliation: California Pacific Regional Rehabilitation Center, San Francisco, USA.
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Perlmutter
authors.forename: Patricia C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Gregory
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D001259:Ataxia / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004401:Dysarthria / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D020362:Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome