Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Case Report
Bünyamin Tosunoğlu
*
Department of Neurology, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Furkan Süleymanoğulları
Department of Neurology, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Enes Tarık Inci
Department of Neurology, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Burcu Gökçe Çokal
Department of Neurology, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Providing an overview through a case report of limbic encephalitis, representing a group of autoimmune and/or paraneoplastic conditions characterized by inflammation of the limbic system and other parts of the brain, provides a broad spectrum of symptoms including recent memory, mood, behavior, olfactory dysfunction, seizures. It is aimed to consider this disease with other similar symptoms in the differential diagnosis of diseases presenting with other similar symptoms.
Keywords: Tassel, Limbic, Wood, nasopharynx, Seeding,, cancer, epigeal germination, IVIG
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