Polyneuropathy: an unreported non-metastatic complication of primary hepatocellular carcinoma.

A patient with hepatic cirrhosis is described, who presented with a sensorimotor polyneuritis at the time of the development of a primary hepatocellular carcinoma. Typical clinical and electrodiagnostic features of a paraneoplastic peripheral neuropathy, not previously reported in hepatocellular carcinoma, were found on investigation.