Pietro Attilio Tonali

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Department of Neurosciences
Institute of Neurology
Address: L.go A. Gemelli,8
00168 Rome
Phone 06 30154303
Fax 06 35501909
Website www.rm.unicatt.it

Biography
Pietro Attilio Tonali is Full Professor of Neurology and Chairman of the Department of Neurosciences at the Catholic University, Rome.
His laboratory is involved in clinical, diagnostic and research fields for paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, myasthenia gravis, LEMS, multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases.

Scientific Team:
Prof. Amelia Evoli, MD
Prof. Anna Paola Batocchi, MD, PhD

Research Facilities:
• Immunohistochemistry and immunoblot techniques to detect onconeural antibodies (anti-amphiphysin 1 and 2, anti-Ri, anti-Yo and anti-Hu).

Areas of interest
1) Neuroimmunologic diseases
2) Paraneoplastic diseases

Selected references

1. Citterio A, Beghi E, Millul A, Evoli A, Mantegazza R, Antozzi C, Baggi F, Cornelio F, Durelli L, Clerico M, Piccolo G, Cosi V. Risk factors for tumor occurrence in patients with myasthenia gravis. J Neurol 2009 Mar 29

2. Evoli A. Antibody-phenotype correlation in stiff-person syndrome. Neurology 2008 9;71(24):1938-9

3. Lang B, Evoli A. SOX1 autoantibodies: tumor markers in LEMS patients? Neurology 2008 18;70(12):906-7.

4. Evoli A, Minicuci GM, Vitaliani R, Battaglia A, Della Marca G, Lauriola L, Fattorossi A. Paraneoplastic diseases associated with thymoma. J Neurol 2007;254(6):756-62

5. Evoli A, Punzi C, Marsili F, Di Schino C, Cesario A, Galetta D, Margaritora S, Granone P. Extrathymic malignancies in patients with thymoma. Ann Oncol 2004;15(4):692-3

6. Evoli A, Minisci C, Di Schino C, Marsili F, Punzi C, Batocchi AP, Tonali PA, Doglietto GB, Granone P, Trodella L, Cassano A, Lauriola L. Thymoma in patients with MG: characteristics and long-term outcome. Neurology 2002;59(12):1844-50

7. Evoli A, Lo Monaco M, Marra R, Lino MM, Batocchi AP, Tonali PA. Multiple paraneoplastic diseases associated with thymoma. Neuromuscul Disord 1999;9(8):601-3

8. Batocchi AP, De Rosa G, Evoli A, Tonali P, Greggi S, Scambia G, Salerno G, Tonali P. Positive response to therapy in a patient with a seropositive paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration and an endometrioid carcinoma of the vesicovaginal septum. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1999;67(3):412-3