1/Wish that your knowledge of autoimmune encephalitis was automatic?
Do you feel in limbo when it comes to the causes of limbic encephalitis?
Do you know the patterns of autoimmune encephalitis?
Here’s a thread with some hints to help you figure it all out!
Do you feel in limbo when it comes to the causes of limbic encephalitis?
Do you know the patterns of autoimmune encephalitis?
Here’s a thread with some hints to help you figure it all out!
2/Two pearls:
(1) Most common pattern is limbic encephalitis
(2) Small cell can cause any autoimmune pattern.
You can also remember the causes by the demographic:
🔸Young man: testicular
🔸Older: Small cell
🔸Woman with psychiatric symptoms: breast
(1) Most common pattern is limbic encephalitis
(2) Small cell can cause any autoimmune pattern.
You can also remember the causes by the demographic:
🔸Young man: testicular
🔸Older: Small cell
🔸Woman with psychiatric symptoms: breast
3/Limbic encephalitis is the most common pattern
But it has many, many different causes
Remember--limbic involvement is shaped like a question mark!
So for limbic encephalitis, the cause remains a question bc the differential is so broad
Must question & clinically correlate!
But it has many, many different causes
Remember--limbic involvement is shaped like a question mark!
So for limbic encephalitis, the cause remains a question bc the differential is so broad
Must question & clinically correlate!
4/Some other patterns to remember:
Multifocal = small cell and neuroendocrine
Remember:
🔸Small cell gives you mets everywhere = small encephalitis everywhere
🔸Neuroendocrine can arise from different places all over your body = encephalitis different places all over your brain
Multifocal = small cell and neuroendocrine
Remember:
🔸Small cell gives you mets everywhere = small encephalitis everywhere
🔸Neuroendocrine can arise from different places all over your body = encephalitis different places all over your brain
5/Central/Deep gray = malignant thymoma
Remember:
Thymus is located central and deep in your chest, so its pattern is central and deep!
Remember:
Thymus is located central and deep in your chest, so its pattern is central and deep!
6/Frontal = ovarian teratoma
Remember:
Ovaries are situated on the uterus right where the frontal lobes are situated on the brain!
Remember:
Ovaries are situated on the uterus right where the frontal lobes are situated on the brain!
7/Brainstem = testicular
Remember:
Brainstem hangs down from the cerebrum like the testicles
Hopefully, these hints will help you, so that the next time you see autoimmune encephalitis, you can be on autopilot!
Remember:
Brainstem hangs down from the cerebrum like the testicles
Hopefully, these hints will help you, so that the next time you see autoimmune encephalitis, you can be on autopilot!
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