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Query: UMLS:C0032285 (
pneumonia
)
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A 77-year-old woman presenting with progressive visual loss in both eyes was found to have small cell lung cancer. Assay for collapsin response-mediating protein (CRMP) -5 was positive suggesting a paraneoplastic optic neuropathy (PON). During treatment of the small cell lung cancer, the patient died of
pneumonia
and autopsy disclosed neuropathologic abnormalities consistent with PON. This is only the second case of
CRMP-5
-confirmed PON to report neuropathologic findings.
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PMID:Small cell lung carcinoma presenting as collapsin response-mediating protein (CRMP) -5 paraneoplastic optic neuropathy. 1696 32
