ENCEPHALOMYELONEURITIS IN ABSENCE OF CANCER NEUROLOGY Langston, J. W., DORFMAN, L. J., Forno, L. S. 1975; 25 (7): 633-637

Abstract

An elderly man presented with signs and symptoms indicating a rapidly progressive central and peripheral nervous system disease, which led to death within 3 months. The pathologic picture was that of a "paraneoplastic" encephalomyelitis and neuritis, but no cancer could be found. Supratentorial predilection for the limbic structures correlated well with an observed limbic dementia. Arguments favoring a direct toxic or metabolic effect of cancer as a cause for this syndrome was less convincing in view of this report.

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