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Paraneoplastic disorders may be defined as diseases which are due to tumours elsewhere in the body but not caused by a local metastasis or tumour infiltrations. Other terms used in literature are paracarcinomatous syndrome and meta-carcinomatous syndrome.
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Moffie, D., Stefanko, S.Z. (1980). The Pathology of Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelopathies. In: Ongerboer de Visser, B.W., Bosch, D.A., van Woerkom-Eykenboom, W.M.H. (eds) Neuro-Oncology. Developments in Oncology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8919-1_5
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