Macchi Zachary A, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters B K, Orjuela Karen D, Pastula Daniel M, Piquet Amanda L, Baca Christine B
Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America.
Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America; Department of Pathology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States of America.
J Neuroimmunol. 2020 Mar 7;342:577214. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2020.577214.
A 43-year-old woman presented with cognitive decline, focal seizures, brain MRI showing non-enhancing, bilateral hippocampal lesions, but normal cerebrospinal fluid findings, which fulfilled the Graus et al., 2016 criteria for autoimmune limbic encephalitis (ALE). Subjective improvements were observed after immunotherapy. A repeat brain MRI showed new contrast enhancement and positron emission tomography revealed left hippocampal uptake. Biopsy of the right parahippocampus yielded high-grade glioma. Five similar cases, among the 14 with unilateral hippocampal lesions on MRI, were identified in the literature whereby suspected ALE preceded the high-grade glioma diagnosis. Gliomas confined to hippocampi can have clinical features overlapping with ALE.
一名43岁女性出现认知功能减退、局灶性癫痫发作,脑部磁共振成像(MRI)显示双侧海马区有非强化性病变,但脑脊液检查结果正常,符合2016年格劳斯等人提出的自身免疫性边缘叶脑炎(ALE)标准。免疫治疗后观察到主观症状有所改善。再次脑部MRI显示有新的对比增强,正电子发射断层扫描显示左侧海马区有摄取。右侧海马旁回活检显示为高级别胶质瘤。在文献中,在14例MRI显示单侧海马区病变的病例中,发现了5例类似病例,即疑似ALE先于高级别胶质瘤的诊断。局限于海马区的胶质瘤可具有与ALE重叠的临床特征。