Paraneoplastic neuromuscular disorder, often with small cell lung cancer.
- Specialty
- Oncology
- Subspecialty
- Oncology / Paraneoplastic syndromes
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- CACNA1A
- Alternative names & eponyms
- LEMS
Etiology & mechanism
Antibodies to presynaptic voltage-gated calcium channels.
Gene(s) involved (1)
Symptoms & signs (5)
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
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dry mouth, fatigue
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fatigue
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fatigue
1 shared
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fatigue
1 shared
Burning mouth syndrome
dry mouth
1 shared
Camurati–Engelmann syndrome
fatigue
1 shared
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fatigue
1 shared
Cardiorenal syndrome
fatigue
1 shared
Castleman syndrome
fatigue
1 shared
Central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome
autonomic dysfunction
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