Accumulating evidence has suggested that MRI is a powerful tool ... common virus-associated severe encephalitis, involving brain lesions in areas such as the limbic portion of the temporal lobe ...

Therefore, there should be a low threshold to perform imaging for malignancy screening.6 The most frequent malignancies associated with paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis are lung cancer (usually ...

1 2 We report a case of encephalitis in a pulmonologically asymptomatic patient ... She never developed breathlessness, cough or tachypnoea. An MRI of the brain on day 2 showed non-enhancing, ...

Patients Ten patients <18 years of age who presented with a disorder mainly affecting the limbic areas of <5 years' duration with MRI evidence of mediotemporal encephalitis (hyperintense T2/FLAIR ...

We report a 14 year old girl who presented with symptomatic, intermittent memory loss, behaviour disturbance, fatigue and cognitive change with limbic encephalitis. Initial investigations revealed ...

Corticosteroid treatment was initiated for management of limbic encephalitis. Focal seizures, imaging abnormalities and inflammatory CSF persisted despite treatment and the patient was found to have ...

Clinicians should consider this treatable disorder in the differential diagnosis of vCJD. CSF, cerebrospinal fluid MRI, magnetic resonance imaging PLE, paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis vCJD, variant ...

Figure 2 Magnetic resonance imaging findings in paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis. There is increased signal intensity in the medial aspect of the temporal lobes. In (A), The more intense signal in ...

Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is the most common virus-associated severe encephalitis, involving brain lesions in areas such as the limbic portion ... superiority of MRI over CT scanning ...