title: [Paraneoplastic nephrotic syndrome associated with broncho-pulmonary cancer].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Paraneoplastic nephrotic syndrome associated with malignant broncho-pulmonary tumors. Three cases and literature review. Malignant broncho-pulmonary tumours are the principal cause of a paraneoplastic nephrotic syndrome. These tumours are most often small cell or squamous bronchial carcinomas. In 75% of cases the nephrotic syndrome is due to a membranous glomerulonephritis and it usually precedes the discovery of the causative tumour.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three cases of paraneoploastic nephrotic syndrome associated with bronchial carcinoma are described. The first is of a bronchial carcinoid tumour associated with a membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis. In the second a bronchial adenocarcinoma was revealed by a membranous glomerulonephritis. The last case concerns a squamous carcinoma associated with a nephrotic syndrome in which the histological lesions were not documented on account of progression to rapidly fatal acute renal failure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A revue of the literature describes the associations between paraneoplastic nephrotic syndrome and bronchial carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Maison Blanche, CHU de Reims, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Menivale
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Deslée
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sartelet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wynckel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lebargy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009404:Nephrotic Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D010257:Paraneoplastic Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*