title: The "pulvinar sign" in a case of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
abstract: This paper reports a 59 year old woman with paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis associated with diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Her brain magnetic resonance imaging scan showed bilateral posterior thalamic hyperintensities, similar to the "pulvinar sign". Her symptoms included progressive psychiatric disturbance and resembled the initial symptoms of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Clinicians should consider this treatable disorder in the differential diagnosis of vCJD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine,D-4, 2-2, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. m-mihara@neurol.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mihara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugase
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Konaka
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sugai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakoda
mesh_terms: D001365:Axilla; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D020363:Limbic Encephalitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D020649:Pulvinar / Q000473:pathology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000473:pathology