1
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, Devon, UK
2
University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, Devon, UK
Abstract
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.
Day, J. O. & Zeman, A. J. (2016). Limbic Encephalitis Driven by a Pleural Mesothelioma: A Paraneoplastic Complication. Middle East Journal of Cancer, 7(4), 221–223.
MLA
Day, J. O., & Zeman, A. J. "Limbic Encephalitis Driven by a Pleural Mesothelioma: A Paraneoplastic Complication", Middle East Journal of Cancer, 7, 4, 2016, 221–223.
HARVARD
Day, J. O., & Zeman, A. J. (2016). 'Limbic Encephalitis Driven by a Pleural Mesothelioma: A Paraneoplastic Complication', Middle East Journal of Cancer, 7(4), pp. 221–223.
CHICAGO
Day, J. O. & Zeman, A. J., "Limbic Encephalitis Driven by a Pleural Mesothelioma: A Paraneoplastic Complication." Middle East Journal of Cancer, 7 4 (2016): 221–223,
VANCOUVER
Day J. O., Zeman A. J. Limbic Encephalitis Driven by a Pleural Mesothelioma: A Paraneoplastic Complication. Middle East Journal of Cancer. 2016;7(4):221–223.
