title: Central neurogenic hyperventilation: a case report and discussion of pathophysiology.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Central neurogenic hyperventilation is a rare condition with poorly understood pathophysiology.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe a patient with central neurogenic hyperventilation caused by an infiltrative brainstem lymphoma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Based on analysis of this patient and other case reports, we propose that central neurogenic hyperventilation is uniquely the result of infiltrative tumors that stimulate pontine respiratory centers and central chemoreceptors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. atarulli@caregroup.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Andrew W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Tarulli
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Jonathan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Bui
authors.forename: Clifford B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Saper
authors.forename: Michael P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Alexander
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006985:Hyperventilation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology