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Paraneoplastic extra limbic encephalitis associated with thymoma.
We report the case of a 55-year-old woman with thymoma diagnosed after finding of extra limbic encephalitis. She presented neurologic symptoms as seizure and aphasia; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed multiple lesions located in insular, parietal and temporal lobes (in cortical and sub-cortical area). Brain biopsies confirmed the diagnosis of encephalitis and CT-scan of the t...
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A 42-year-old woman with short-term memory loss visited Gangnam Severance Hospital, and her chest X-ray and computed tomography revealed a right anterior mediastinal mass. On hospital day two, she suddenly presented personality changes and a drowsy mental status, so she required ventilator care in the intensive care unit. She underwent thymectomy, and was pathologically diagnosed with thymoma, ...
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OBJECTIVES To report a case of multifocal cortical encephalitis associated with thymoma and to establish an association of this thymoma-related paraneoplastic syndrome with voltage-gated potassium channel antibodies. DESIGN Case report. SETTING University hospital. PATIENT A 43-year-old woman with a history of seropositive myasthenia gravis and successfully treated invasive thymoma. Four ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1225-7044,2288-985X
DOI: 10.17340/jkna.2019.1.18