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Case Reports
. 1976 Jan;39(1):93-5.
doi: 10.1136/jnnp.39.1.93.

Localized sympathetic overactivity: an uncommon complication of lung cancer

J C Walsh, P A Low, J L Allsop
Case Reports

Localized sympathetic overactivity: an uncommon complication of lung cancer

J C Walsh et al. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1976 Jan.

Abstract

Direct nerve infiltration by tumour tissue usually produces pain, and loss of motor, sensory, and autonomic function. Two patients are reported in whom a major symptom of nerve infiltration was sympathetic overactivity manifested by excessive spontaneous sweating.

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