Metastatic chondroblastoma with elevated creatine kinase and paraneoplastic neurologic autoimmunity

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2003 Nov;25(11):900-4. doi: 10.1097/00043426-200311000-00015.

Abstract

A 17-year-old girl presented with chondroblastoma of the fibula and pulmonary metastases. Serum creatine kinase (CK) was elevated for a decade preoperatively and fell to near normal after tumor excision. An episode of aseptic meningitis 3 months later led to serologic detection of three antibody markers of paraneoplastic neurologic autoimmunity that in adult patients are characteristic of thymoma and lung carcinoma: muscle-type acetylcholine receptor (AChR) autoantibody (Ab), type 2 Purkinje cell cytoplasmic Ab (PCA-2), and collapsin response-mediator protein-5-IgG (CRMP-5-IgG). Locally recurrent chondroblastoma was excised 1 year later. Serum CK was elevated, CRMP-5-IgG was positive, PCA-2 was lower, and AChR Ab was undetectable. Three years after diagnosis she has stable pulmonary metastases, with elevated CK, higher PCA-2, positive CRMP-5-IgG, and undetectable AChR Ab. The association of metastatic chondroblastoma, elevated CK, and an evolving profile of paraneoplastic autoantibodies reveals a previously unrecognized immunobiologic dimension of chondroblastoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Autoantibodies / blood
  • Autoimmunity*
  • Chondroblastoma / enzymology
  • Chondroblastoma / immunology*
  • Chondroblastoma / secondary*
  • Creatine Kinase / blood*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hydrolases
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary
  • Meningitis / etiology
  • Microtubule-Associated Proteins
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / immunology
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes / immunology*
  • Purkinje Cells / immunology
  • Receptors, Cholinergic / immunology

Substances

  • Autoantibodies
  • Microtubule-Associated Proteins
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • Receptors, Cholinergic
  • Creatine Kinase
  • DPYSL5 protein, human
  • Hydrolases