Limbic encephalitis – a report of four cases
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Limbic encephalitis – a report of four cases
Usually limbic encephalitis (LE) is a paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome. LE symptoms can precede cancer even by a few years. Almost 50% of LE cases are connected with small cell lung carcinoma. Testis and breast cancers, granulomatous disease, thymoma, and teratomas are also often connected with LE. Other cases have infectious and autoimmunological aetiology. In LE limbic system dysfunction is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Central European Journal of Immunology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1426-3912
DOI: 10.5114/ceji.2017.69365