title: Stiff man syndrome with thymoma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, National Kinki Central Hospital for Chest Diseases, Osaka, Japan. h-tanaka@kch.hosp.go.jp
authors.forename: Hisaichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Akihide
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: Meinoshin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitaguchi
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iuchi
mesh_terms: 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