TY - JOUR ID - 42053 TI - Limbic Encephalitis Driven by a Pleural Mesothelioma: A Paraneoplastic Complication JO - Middle East Journal of Cancer JA - MEJC LA - en SN - 2008-6709 AU - Day, Jacob O. AU - Zeman, Adam J. AD - Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, Devon, UK AD - University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, Devon, UK Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 221 EP - 223 DO - N2 - Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes have only been described with pleural mesothelioma in five cases. We have described a 72-year-old man who developed anterograde amnesia 27 months after diagnosis of epithelioid pleural mesothelioma. Investigations revealed a limbic encephalitis with no alternative causes identified. Limbic encephalitis is a classical paraneoplastic syndrome and presentation within five years of a cancer with no other causes identified is sufficient to diagnose a paraneoplastic etiology. This is the first case of isolated paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis driven by a pleural mesothelioma. UR - https://mejc.sums.ac.ir/article_42053.html L1 - https://mejc.sums.ac.ir/article_42053_f73a83592ce0de9ee8b050b90b65036b.pdf ER -