[Anti-Ma2 paraneoplastic autoimmune encephalitis]

Paraneoplastic syndromes are a heterogeneous group of conditions affecting cancer patients, where the symptoms are not owing to the local effects of the tumor but instead owing to humoral or immunologic effects. Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) develop in less than 1% of cancer patients and can affect any part of the nervous system. A variety of PNS phenotypes are associated with anti-Ma2 antibody, primarily encephalitis with a predominant involvement of brainstem, limbic and diencephalic structures. We describe a case of anti-Ma2 autoimmune encephalitis with a recurrent course in a patient with two different primary tumors in the anamnesis.