NEUROPATHIC ARTHROPATHY CAUSED BY PARANEOPLASTIC SENSORY NEUROPATHY -A CASE-REPORT

Neuropathic arthropathy of both knees after paraneoplastic sensory neu ropathy developed in a 64-year-old woman, The patient was found to hav e small cell lung cancer 2 months after the onset of a sensory neuropa thy that mas diagnosed as paraneoplastic sensory nenropathy; a nonmeta static neurologic complication in patients with malignancy, The onset of paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy was followed by the gradual onset of neuropathic arthropathy, This is the first well documented report on neuropathic arthropathy in a patient with paraneoplastic sensory ne nropathy.