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. 2022 Mar 11;11(6):1537. doi: 10.3390/jcm11061537

Table 2.

Major paraneoplastic onconeuronal antibodies reactive with neuronal membrane antigens. Adapted from Galli, J.; Greenlee, J. Paraneoplastic Diseases of the Central Nervous System [7].

Antibody Common Neurological
Phenotypes
Common Associated
Malignancies
Anti-AMPAR Limbic encephalitis Breast
Lung
Thymus
Anti-LGI1/Anti-
CASPR2
Limbic encephalitis
Faciobrachial dystonic
seizures
Morvan’s syndrome
Thymoma (especially in patients
positive for both antibodies)
Other neoplasms (rare)
Anti-GABAbR Limbic encephalitis,
status epilepticus
Small-cell lung cancer
Anti-mGluR1 Cerebellar degeneration Hodgkin’s disease
Anti-mGlur2 Cerebellar degeneration Small-cell cancer; alveolar
rhabdomyosarcoma
Anti-mGluR5 Limbic encephalitis Hodgkin’s disease
Anti-VGKC Cerebellar degeneration
(Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome)
Small-cell lung cancer