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  • Title: Paraneoplastic extra limbic encephalitis associated with thymoma.
    Author: Rizzardi G, Campione A, Scanagatta P, Terzi A.
    Journal: Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg; 2009 Oct; 9(4):755-6. PubMed ID: 19622540.
    Abstract:
    We report the case of a 55-year-old woman with thymoma diagnosed after finding of extra limbic encephalitis. She presented neurologic symptoms as seizure and aphasia; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed multiple lesions located in insular, parietal and temporal lobes (in cortical and sub-cortical area). Brain biopsies confirmed the diagnosis of encephalitis and CT-scan of the thorax showed an anterior mediastinal mass suspected for thymoma. The patient was submitted to thymectomy through a median sternotomy and we assisted to secondary reduction of cerebral lesions and total remission of symptoms.
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