[Schwartz-Bartter syndrome. Presentation of a sub-glottal small cell laryngeal carcinoma (author's transl)].

Abstract

Inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone or Schwartz-Bartter syndrome is considered to be a paraneoplastic endocrine syndrome, most frequently associated with a small cell anaplastic carcinoma of the lung. The authors present a case of sub-glottal laryngeal carcinoma discovered several months after the onset of clinical (disturbances of conscious level) and laboratory (hyponatraemia, hypochloraemia, blood hypo-osmolarity which preservation of urinary sodium output) manifestations which form the original features of this syndrome, the criteria of which are reviewed. The y conclude by the need for complete examination, not excluding unusual sites of primary tumour.

• Authors: J Trotoux, M Glickmanas, O Sterkers, M Trousset, J Pinel
• Journal: Annales d'oto-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico faciale : bulletin de la Societe d'oto-laryngologie des hopitaux de Paris (Ann Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac) Vol. 96 Issue 6 Pg. 349-58 (Jun 1979) ISSN: 0003-438X [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Syndrome de Schwartz-Bartter. Révélateur d'un cancer laryngé sous-glottique à petites cellules.
• PMID: 507641 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Aged
• Carcinoma (complications, pathology)
• Female
• Humans
• Inappropriate ADH Syndrome (etiology)
• Laryngeal Neoplasms (complications, pathology)
• Lymphatic Metastasis
• Male
• Middle Aged