His clinical presentation, in conjunction with imaging and response to therapy, was strongly suggestive of thymoma associated paraneoplastic encephalitis. Early recognition is the only way to ensure ...

Ma2 is an autoantigen previously identified in patients with germ cell tumours of the testis and paraneoplastic brain stem and limbic encephalitis. Our patient's clinical and immunopathological ...

Routine laboratory testing, lumbar puncture, serum and cerebrospinal fluid testing for viral and paraneoplastic encephalitis, and brain biopsy were performed on our patient. Our clinical diagnosis was ...

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 ...

Diagnosis: Anti-Ma2 paraneoplastic encephalitis in association with metastatic testicular cancer; initially misdiagnosed as CNS Whipple's disease. A 39-year-old man with remote traumatic brain ...

It can be triggered by an infection elsewhere in the body (post-infectious autoimmune encephalitis) or a tumor ...

NMDAR antibodies are present in serum and CSF, usually with intrathecal synthesis, and are sometimes only detected in the CSF. The main target epitopes are in the NR1/NR2 heteromers of the NMDAR.

Paraneoplastic antibodies were detected in 10 patients ... The treatment and prognosis of 19 patients with encephalitis, aseptic meningitis, or meningoencephalitis are summarized in Table 3. All ...

A 69 year old woman presented with cognitive impairment and supranuclear gaze palsy caused by paraneoplastic limbic/brain stem encephalitis associated with atypical medullary breast carcinoma. The ...

autoimmune/paraneoplastic encephalitis and CNS vasculitis. Welcome to the MS Fellowship Program at Ohio State It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the MS division of the Ohio State University, ...