Polycythemia vera

Polycythemia vera (PV) is an acquired myeloproliferative disorder characterized by an elevated absolute red blood cell mass caused by uncontrolled red blood cell production, frequently associated with uncontrolled white blood cell and platelet production.

Peripheral neuropathy

Peripheral neuropathy is a general term for any disorder of the peripheral nervous system. The main clinical features used to classify peripheral neuropathy are distribution, type (mainly demyelinating versus mainly axonal), duration, and course.


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PMID (PMCID)
12671583
FEMALE Adult
[Aquadynia: a role for VIP?].
Misery L, Meyronet D, Pichon M, Brutin JL, Pestre P, Cambazard F.
Ann Dermatol Venereol. 2003;130(2 Pt 1):195-8.
Differential diagnoses of aquadynia are aquagenic pruritus and urticaria, hysteria or simulation, Fabry's disease, erythermalgia, peripheral neuropathy or polycythemia vera.
10970126
OTHER Middle Aged
Morphometric evaluation of paraneoplastic neuropathies associated with carcinomas, lymphomas, and dysproteinemias.
Wang JF, Schroder JM.
J Peripher Nerv Syst. 1998;3(4):259-66.
Paraneoplastic peripheral neuropathies are caused by indirect effects of carcinomas, mainly small cell bronchogenic carcinomas, lymphoproliferative disorders (lymphomas, myelomas, polycythemia vera), and dysproteinemias (benign monoclonal paraproteinemia, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia) including cryoglobulinemias.