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