Occult manifestations of cancer.
Clinical syndromes occasionally associated with or heralding cancer are summarized and classified.Some tumours present with manifestations of an endocrine or endocrine-like action; included in this group are thymomas, non-beta-cell tumours of the pancreas and carcinoids. Cushing's syndrome, hypoglycemia, hypercalcemia, polycythemia and gynecomastia have been produced by a wide variety of tumours. Tumour emboli, non-bacterial thromboendocarditis and thrombophlebitis occasionally occur, but thrombophlebitis is not so frequent as was previously considered. Neurological syndromes are rare and show a great variety of presentations. Other occult manifestations of cancer include hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, various skin diseases, obscure pyrexias and, in Hodgkin's disease, pain secondary to alcohol consumption.
D002276:Carcinoid Tumor; D003480:Cushing Syndrome; D005334:Fever; D006177:Gynecomastia; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia; D007003:Hypoglycemia; D007340:Insulinoma; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms; D011086:Polycythemia; D012871:Skin Diseases; D013924:Thrombophlebitis; D013945:Thymoma
NEOPLASMS