Combined myelopathy and radiculoneuropathy with malignant lymphoproliferative disease.

Clinicopathological findings for two similar patients in whom myelopathy and radiculoneuropathy developed in association with malignant lymphoma were reviewed. This pattern of neurological disease has not been reported in association with the malignant lymphoproliferative disorders, and it provides ground for speculation concerning lymphocyte function and viral infection in cases of neurological disease in association with remote neoplasm.