Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis associated with bronchogenic carcinoma: a case report.
Neurol India
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2001 Jun; 49(2): 185-7
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in English
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| ID: sea-120268
ABSTRACT
Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is a rare clinical entity, associated most often with the oat cell carcinoma of the lung. Clinically, it presents with affective changes in personality, memory loss, confusional state, hallucinations, and seizures; with dementia being the common feature as the disorder progresses. Response to treatment is disappointingly poor.
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Main subject:
Paraneoplastic Syndromes
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Personality
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Humans
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Male
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
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Radiography, Thoracic
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Fatal Outcome
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Limbic Encephalitis
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Lung Neoplasms
Language:
English
Journal:
Neurol India
Year:
2001
Type:
Article
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