Anti-Hu-mediated paraneoplastic chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction associated with extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma.

Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) is characterized by symptoms and signs of bowel obstruction in the absence of an anatomical cause. Almost 50 % of cases are secondary to systemic diseases of neurological, paraneoplastic, autoimmune, metabolic, or infectious origin.