Neuroblastoma

Neuroblastoma is a malignant tumor of neural crest cells, the cells that give rise to the sympathetic nervous system, which is observed in children.

Narcolepsy

An abnormal phenomenon characterized by a classic tetrad of excessive daytime sleepiness with irresistible sleep attacks, cataplexy (sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone), hypnagogic hallucination, and sleep paralysis.


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Narcolepsy with cataplexy as presenting symptom of occult neuroblastoma.
Sinsioco C, Silver K, Forrest KM, Gray J, Nechay A, Sheldon S, Chelmicka Schorr E.
Pediatr Neurol. 2013;49(1):64-7.
Here we describe three patients, each presenting in early childhood with complex neurological symptoms including narcolepsy with cataplexy that were subsequently found to have paraspinal neuroblastoma.