- carcinomatous neuromyopathy
- a paraneoplastic syndrome of neuromyopathy in patients having carcinoma, usually of the lung. Cf. carcinomatous polyneuropathy.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
carcinomatous neuromyopathy
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