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. 2023 Feb 13;23(3):67–82. doi: 10.1007/s11910-023-01250-w

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

MRI and antibody test findings in paraneoplastic disorders. Top row, axial MRI images demonstrate (left, T2 FLAIR) bilateral mesial temporal hyperintensities in a patient with ANNA-1-associated paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis (middle, T2 FLAIR) multifocal extra-limbic hyperintensities in a patient with GABA-A receptor (R) encephalitis, and (right, T1 post-gadolinium) spinal cord tractopathies in a patient with seronegative renal cell carcinoma-associated paraneoplastic myelopathy. Bottom row, indirect immunofluorescence assay using mouse brain tissue as substrate reveals a typical synaptic pattern of IgG staining of hippocampus (left) and cerebellum (right) produced by CSF from a patient with GABA-A-R encephalitis. GABA-A-R specificity was confirmed by GABA-A-R alpha 1 subunit specific cell-based assay (not shown). Top right image from reference 58 reproduced with permission from American Academy of Neurology