... improved her neurological symptoms significantly. Paraneoplastic syndrome Thymoma Anti-Hu antibodies Thymoma is a neoplasm of the thymic epithelium and accounts for ∼50% of all anterior mediastinal tumours. A number of autoimmune disorders are associated with thymoma, most commonly myasthenia gravis...

...Jean‐Philippe Camdessanché; Jean‐Christophe Antoine; Jérôme Honnorat; Christophe Vial; Philippe Petiot; Philippe Convers; Daniel Michel For each of the 27 patients with anti‐Hu antibodies, the clinical data of the peripheral neuropathy were reviewed and analysed retrospectively. In particular, we...

... T cell mediated pathogenesis. The second, characterizable by the detection of antibodies targeting plasma membrane antigens, such as NMDA receptor, are likely mediated (at least in part) by pathogenic antibody. autoimmune encephalitis confusion seizures encephalopathy ANNA-1 anti-HU antibodies...