RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 “Encephalomyeloneuritis” in the absence of cancer
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 633
OP 633
DO 10.1212/WNL.25.7.633
VO 25
IS 7
A1 LANGSTON, J. WILLIAM
A1 DORFMAN, LESLIE J.
A1 FORNO, LYSIA S.
YR 1975
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/25/7/633.abstract
AB 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 are less convincing in view of this report.