Case 23-2024: A 78-Year-Old Woman with Rapidly Progressive Dementia

N Engl J Med. 2024 Jul 25;391(4):357-369. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2402488.

Authors

Eric E Smith¹, Saurabh Rohatgi¹, Jenny J Linnoila¹, Maria Martinez-Lage¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, and the University of Calgary - both in Calgary, AB, Canada (E.E.S.); the Departments of Radiology (S.R.) and Pathology (M.M.-L.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Radiology (S.R.) and Pathology (M.M.-L.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston; and the Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - both in Pittsburgh (J.J.L.).

PMID: 39047245
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2402488

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Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Aged
Brain* / diagnostic imaging
Brain* / pathology
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy* / complications
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy* / pathology
Dementia* / diagnostic imaging
Dementia* / etiology
Dementia* / pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Disease Progression
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Limbic Encephalitis* / diagnostic imaging
Limbic Encephalitis* / etiology
Lung Neoplasms* / complications
Lung Neoplasms* / pathology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma* / complications
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma* / pathology