Lung Cancer: Paraneoplastic Features

Key points

• Lung cancer: paraneoplastic features Small cell
• ACTH - not typical, hypertension, hyperglycaemia, hypokalaemia, alkalosis and muscle weakness are more common than buffalo hump etc
• Lambert-Eaton syndrome Squamous cell
• parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-rp) secretion causing hypercalcaemia
• hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy (HPOA)