title: Recurrent acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy following R-CHOP treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
abstract: Acute flaccid paralysis following chemotherapy has a wide differential diagnosis, including drug toxicity, acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), and malignant nerve infiltration. We present a case of recurrent acute quadriparesis due to AIDP following chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which resolved each time following administration of intravenous immunoglobulin. Although many chemotherapeutic agents can cause neurologic side effects, such as peripheral neuropathy, drug toxicity as a cause is a diagnosis of exclusion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine (Liang) and the Divison of Hematology and Medical Oncology (Singh, Witzig), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Jackson J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Preet P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Witzig
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