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Published in final edited form as: Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2006 Dec;20(6):1319–1335. doi: 10.1016/j.hoc.2006.09.011

Table 1.

Paraneoplastic antibodies that may associate with limbic encephalitis

Antibody	Syndrome	Cancer
Hu	Limbic encephalitis, encephalomyelitis	SCLC, other
Ma proteins	Limbic, hypothalamic,^a and brainstem encephalitis	Testis, lung, other
CV2/CRMP5	Limbic, striatal encephalitis (chorea), cerebellar ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, uveitis	SCLC, thymoma
Amphiphysin	Limbic encephalitis, stiff-person syndrome	Breast, SCLC

Hypothalamic pituitary hormonal deficits; decreased CSF hypocretin (associated with hypersomnia, narcolepsy).