Stiff man syndrome with thymoma.
Paraneoplastic stiff man syndrome with a thymoma is rare disease. We treated a 57-year-old woman with a type B1 thymoma, based on the World Health Organization classification, who had stiff man syndrome. Her symptoms were alleviated after a thymectomy. Herein we report a case of stiff man syndrome with a thymoma and also review three cases reported previously.
Tanaka
Hisaichi
H
Department of Surgery, National Kinki Central Hospital for Chest Diseases, Osaka, Japan. h-tanaka@kch.hosp.go.jp
Matsumura
Akihide
A
Okumura
Meinoshin
M
Kitaguchi
Masataka
M
Yamamoto
Satoru
S
Iuchi
Keiji
K
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000209:etiology; D016750:Stiff-Person Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D013934:Thymectomy; D013945:Thymoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery