Table 1.

Paraneoplastic syndromes of the nervous system classified by location. Adapted from Dalmau J, Rosenfeld MR. Paraneoplastic syndromes of the CNS. Lancet Neurol. 2008; 7(4): 327–340. [6].

	Brain, Cranial Nerves and Retina	Spinal Cord	Peripheral Nerves or Muscle	Neuromuscular Junction
Non-Classic PNS	Brainstem encephalitis	Stiff -person syndrome	Sensorimotor neuropathy	Myasthenia gravis
	Optic neuritis	Myelitis	Neuropathy and paraproteinaemia
	Cancer-associated retinopathy	Necrotising myelopathy	Neuropathy with vasculitis
	Melanoma-associated retinopathy	Motor-neuron syndromes	Polymyositis
			Acute necrotising myopathy
			Acquired neuromyotonia
			Autonomic neuropathies
Classic PNS	Cerebellar degeneration		Sensory neuronopathy	Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
	Limbic encephalitis		Intestinal pseudo-obstruction
	Encephalomyelitis		Dermatomyositis
	Opsoclonus-myoclonus