Paraneoplastic stiff person syndrome variant form (Q107259)

Stiff person syndrome variant form results from a targeted attack on the central nervous system as a consequence of a potentially effective tumour immune response initiated by onco-neural antigens derived from a systemic cancer. Paraneoplastic stiff person syndrome is most commonly associated with the autoantibody amphiphysin-IgG in patients with an underlying breast cancer. Associated neural autoantibodies include: amphiphysin

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English	Paraneoplastic stiff person syndrome variant form	Stiff person syndrome variant form results from a targeted attack on the central nervous system as a consequence of a potentially effective tumour immune response initiated by onco-neural antigens derived from a systemic cancer. Paraneoplastic stiff person syndrome is most commonly associated with the autoantibody amphiphysin-IgG in patients with an underlying breast cancer. Associated neural autoantibodies include: amphiphysin