Review Article
Are Onconeural Antibodies a Clinical Phenomenology in Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis?
Table 3
Differential diagnoses of limbic encephalitis.
| Infectious disorders | | Herpes simplex virus encephalitis | | Neurosyphilis | | Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy | | Rabies | | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | |
| Metabolic disorders | | Metabolic encephalopathy (uremic, hepatic, Cushing syndrome, etc.) | | Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome | | Hashimoto’s encephalopathy | |
| Systemic autoimmune disorders | | Sjögren syndrome | | Systemic lupus erythematosus | | Antiphospholipid syndrome | |
| Malignancies | | Lymphoma | | Glioma | | Gliomatosis cerebri | |
| Degenerative disorders | | Alzheimer’s disease | | Lewy-body dementia | | Frontotemporal dementia | |
| Others | | Stroke with posterior cerebral artery involvement | | Central nervous system vasculitis | | Temporal lobe epilepsy | | Nonconvulsive status epilepticus | | Transient global amnesia | | Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis | | Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome | | Intoxication (alcohol, lithium, etc.) | | Alcohol withdrawal syndrome | | Psychiatric disorder | |
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