The Japanese Journal of Urology
Online ISSN : 1884-7110
Print ISSN : 0021-5287
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Case Reports
LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS IN THE COURSE OF TESTICULAR LYMPHOMA
Kazuhiko OshinomiMakoto ShimadaKatsuki InoueKazuhiko ShiikiSou SugawaraMasakazu NagataTomoko MaedaYoshio Ogawa
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2010 Volume 101 Issue 1 Pages 34-37

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Abstract
The malignant tumor patient tends to develop various neuropathy by direct invasion, metastasis, secondary infectious disease of tumor, metabolic disorders, vascular damage and adverse drug reactions with a treatment, and, however, it rarely appear by mechanism of autoimmunization.Tumor tissue with paraneoplastic neurological syndrome (PNS) produces an antigen attacking nerve tissue by it's cross reaction, and many studies indicates that there are a few kinds of antineuritic antibodies occurred by the charactor of malignant diseases or the patterns of progression.There is no relationship between the symptoms and the progression of disease.
We report a case of malignant testicular tumor presented the paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis which is one of paraneoplastic neurological syndrome.
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