Anticorps anti-Hu révélateurs d'un cancer pulmonaire anaplasique à petites cellules

Abstract

A 59-year-old woman underwent an isolated subacute neuropathy. The only abnormality of CSF examination was 1,82 g protein/l. The clinical course was marked by a bilateral phrenic palsy requiring respiratory assistance. Whereas the first chest CT scan gave no evidence of lung neoplasm, the presence of anti-Hu antibodies in serum and CSF prompted to repeat chest investigations until the discovery of a small-cell lung carcinoma.