Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis associated with bronchogenic carcinoma: a case report

Wani, M.A.; Dar, J.A.; Khan, M.A.; Rehman, A.

Neurology India 49(2): 185-187

2001


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3886
PMID: 11447443
Document Number: 527545
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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