title: [Small cell lung cancer and anti-Hu syndrome].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The anti-Hu associated syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic neurological syndrome, which is principally associated with small-cell lung cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the case of a patient with the following clinical features: dysautonomia with severe gastroparesis, sensory neuropathy and a rhombencephalitis. Tumour regression was obtained with chemotherapy but the patient ultimately died from the neurological complications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Neurological syndromes associated in small cell lung cancer with anti-Hu antibodies are very diverse. Cancer evolution is generally speaking more benign than usual with the prognosis linked to the severity of the neurological involvement.
authors.affiliation: Pôle de pathologie thoracique, service de pneumologie, hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, BP 426, 67091 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Prim
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mennecier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Behr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fraisse
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Echaniz-Laguna
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tranchant
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Quoix
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D051959:ELAV Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D020364:Paraneoplastic Polyneuropathy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology; D055752:Small Cell Lung Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D051959:ELAV Proteins