Wade Francis Gerald, Odufalu Florence-Damilola, Prather Charlene, Marsicano Elizabeth
Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University College of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University College of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO.
ACG Case Rep J. 2020 Mar 17;7(3):e00350. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000000350. eCollection 2020 Mar.
Cholestatic hepatitis has not been reported as a paraneoplastic syndrome of endometrial adenocarcinoma to our knowledge. We present a patient who, shortly after endometrial adenocarcinoma diagnosis, presented with elevated liver chemistries in the setting of an acute, paraneoplastic sensorimotor polyneuropathy. Infectious, autoimmune, pharmacologic, malignant, metabolic, and structural causes of cholestatic hepatitis were screened for and ruled out. Our patient was diagnosed with simultaneous cholestatic hepatitis and acute sensorimotor polyneuropathy as possible paraneoplastic syndromes of endometrial adenocarcinoma. Clinicians should include paraneoplastic processes of cancer in the differential diagnosis for liver injury, especially when workup for alternative causes is unrevealing.