CAMPTOCORMIA - A CASE OF POSSIBLE PARANEOPLASTIC ETIOLOGY

We present a patient with gradual development of camptocormia, three y ears before a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was diagnosed. Lymphomas are know n to produce neuromuscular symptoms through several indirect mechanism s. Recent studies regard camptocormia as a primary disease of the para vertebral muscles. To our knowledge this is the first report associati ng camptocormia with malignancy. The possibility of a paraneoplastic s yndrome is discussed.