Remission of Cerebellar Dysfunction after Pneumonectomy for Bronchogenic Carcinoma

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Abstract
CORTICAL cerebellar degeneration is a paraneoplastic syndrome in which diffuse atrophy of the cerebellum and of the associated spinocerebellar tracts and systems occurs as a remote effect of a neoplasm. Since the first case report by Brouwer in 1919,1 about 60 cases have appeared in the literature. Progressive, disabling cerebellar dysfunction develops, often before the primary tumor is discovered.2 The neurologic disease usually progresses with tumor growth, although rare remissions have been reported after antineoplastic therapy.3 4 5 We present a patient with acute cortical cerebellar dysfunction secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma, whose symptoms disappeared after radical pneumonectomy.Case ReportIn a 67-year-old . . .