Resolution of limbic encephalitis with detection and treatment of lung cancer: Clinical-radiological correlation

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-80

  Messori, Anna ^a   Lanza, Cecilia ^a   Serio, Antonio ^b   Salvolini, Ugo ^a  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^b Villa Serena Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Limbic encephalitis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Paraneoplastic syndrome; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

PARANEOPLASTIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER;

RADIOLOGY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR REGRESSION;

AGED; BRAIN; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0037214270     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0720-048X(02)00290-5     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Brierley J.B., Corsellis J.A.N., Hierons R., Nevin S. Subacute encephalitis of late adult life mainly affecting the limbic areas. Brain. 83:1960;357-368.
2. Corsellis J.A., Goldberg G.J., Norton A.R. 'Limbic encephalitis' and its association with carcinoma. Brain. 91:1968;481-496.
3. Gultekin S.H., Rosenfeld M.R., Voltz R., Eichen J., Posner J.B., Dalmau J. Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: neurological symptoms, immunological findings and tumour association in 50 patients. Brain. 123:2000;1481-1494.
4. Kodama T., Numaguchi Y., Gellad F.E., Dwyer B.A., Kristt D.A. Magnetic resonance imaging of limbic encephalitis. Neuroradiology. 33:1991;520-523.
5. Lacomis D., Khoshbin S., Schick R.M. MR imaging of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis. J. Comput. Assisted Tomogr. 14:1990;115-117.
6. Graus F., Keime-Guibert F., Reñe R., Benyahia B., Ribalta T., Ascaso C., Escaramis G., Delattre J.Y. Anti-Hu-associated paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis: analysis of 200 patients. Brain. 124:2001;1138-1148.
7. Provenzale J.M., Barboriak D.P., Coleman R.E. Limbic encephalitis: comparison of FDG PET and MR imaging findings. Am. J. Roentgenol. 170:1998;1659-1660.
8. Glantz M.J., Biran H., Myers M.E., Gockerman J.P., Friedberg M.H. The radiographic diagnosis and treatment of paraneoplastic central nervous system disease. Cancer. 73:1994;168-175.