Cerebellar Degeneration
Rehabilitation treatment was successful in a patient with paraneoplastic lesions
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, March 17th, 2003
According to recent research from the United States, "Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is a neurologic syndrome associated with carcinoma. Medical management is limited to treatment of the underlying malignancy with excision, plasmapharesis, immunosuppression, or chemotherapy. We report on the case of a woman with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration who showed improvements in functional mobility after 3 wk of comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation."
The researchers concluded: "This case demonstrates the functional improvements of one patient with...
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