Peripheral nerve hyperexcitability (PNH): causes

Evidence-based neurology checklist on peripheral nerve hyperexcitability (pnh): causes: Paraneoplastic causes Thymoma Thyroid cancer Hodgkin lymphoma Renal cell carcinoma Ovarian cancer Immune causes Genetic causes Axonopathies Drug-induced and toxic causes Infectious causes Miscellaneous causes

Paraneoplastic causes

  • Thymoma
  • Thyroid cancer
  • Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Renal cell carcinoma
  • Ovarian cancer

Immune causes

Genetic causes

Axonopathies

Drug-induced and toxic causes

Infectious causes

Miscellaneous causes

References

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  4. Wilson RH, Lehky T, Thomas RR, Quinn MG, Floeter MK, Grem JL. Acute oxaliplatin-induced peripheral nerve hyperexcitability. J Clin Oncol 2002; 20:1767-1774.
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