Antineuronal antibodies in patients with neuroblastoma: relationships with clinical features

Tumori. 1997 Nov-Dec;83(6):953-7. doi: 10.1177/030089169708300616.

Abstract

We evaluated the frequency of serum antineuronal antibodies in a cohort of 39 neuroblastoma patients and related their presence to clinical features. Twelve patients displayed antineuronal antibodies at immunocytochemistry. Only one of these 12 patients suffered from a clinically overt paraneoplastic syndrome. No significant differences emerged between autoantibody-positive and autoantibody-negative patients in terms of progression-free and overall survival, although when only patients evolving to disease progression were considered, the time interval between diagnosis and progression was slightly longer in autoantibody-positive patients.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Autoantibodies / blood*
  • Blotting, Western
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cohort Studies
  • Disease Progression
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Neuroblastoma / immunology*
  • Neuroblastoma / mortality
  • Neuroblastoma / pathology
  • Neurons / immunology*
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes
  • Survival Analysis

Substances

  • Autoantibodies