A case of stiff-man syndrome (SMS), a rare and dramatic CNS disease characterized by continuous muscle activity and painful spasms resembling a chronic form of tetanus, occurring in a patient with Hodgkin's disease (HD) is reported. The patient developed the clinical features of SMS at the same time as the HD relapse. A satisfactory improvement was obtained with diazepam, but the complete recovery from the stiffness was achieved only after chemotherapy was started. Cerebellar autoantibodies were found in the serum of the patient. With chemotherapy the patient achieved a second complete remission (CR). Eighteen months later the patient developed a second HD relapse, and at that time no signs of SMS were detected.

STIFF-MAN SYNDROME IN A PATIENT WITH HODGKINS-DISEASE - AN UNUSUAL PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME / Ferrari, P; Federico, Massimo; Grimaldi, Lme; Silingardi, Vittorio. - In: HAEMATOLOGICA. - ISSN 0390-6078. - STAMPA. - 75:(1990), pp. 570-572.

STIFF-MAN SYNDROME IN A PATIENT WITH HODGKINS-DISEASE - AN UNUSUAL PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME

FEDERICO, Massimo;SILINGARDI, Vittorio
1990

Abstract

A case of stiff-man syndrome (SMS), a rare and dramatic CNS disease characterized by continuous muscle activity and painful spasms resembling a chronic form of tetanus, occurring in a patient with Hodgkin's disease (HD) is reported. The patient developed the clinical features of SMS at the same time as the HD relapse. A satisfactory improvement was obtained with diazepam, but the complete recovery from the stiffness was achieved only after chemotherapy was started. Cerebellar autoantibodies were found in the serum of the patient. With chemotherapy the patient achieved a second complete remission (CR). Eighteen months later the patient developed a second HD relapse, and at that time no signs of SMS were detected.
1990
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570
572
STIFF-MAN SYNDROME IN A PATIENT WITH HODGKINS-DISEASE - AN UNUSUAL PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME / Ferrari, P; Federico, Massimo; Grimaldi, Lme; Silingardi, Vittorio. - In: HAEMATOLOGICA. - ISSN 0390-6078. - STAMPA. - 75:(1990), pp. 570-572.
Ferrari, P; Federico, Massimo; Grimaldi, Lme; Silingardi, Vittorio
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