bluestar
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A patients presents to an opthalmologist complaining of diff reading in the afternoons and evenings cuz his eyelids get too heavy and he gets double vision. The opthalmologist is concerned about a paraneoplastic syndroms because the patient also has a recent unexplained 20 lb weight loss. what is the diagnosis?
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| mani
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ifs its a paraneoplastic syndrome then answer is eaten lambert syndrome but obviosly u can differentiate between the 2 clinically by seeing the response to reapeated activity. in eaten lambert the power improves while it worsns in myasthenia
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| bluestar
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exactly. but Kaplan referred it as myasthenia gravis in the context of paraneoplastic syn. another question, which incidence is increased in thyoma and bronchogenic cancer, myasthenia or Eaton-lambert?
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| dranuragagrawal
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eaton lambert
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| mani
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in the chapter of neoplasia BRS has reffered to Eaton-lambert as paraneoplastic
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