Abstract
We present a patient with primary central nervous system B-cell lymphoma. He had suffered from slowly developing weight loss and presented to us with disorientation, seizures, and a supranuclear gaze disturbance. The patient was dismissed with the primary diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis of the brainstem and put on oral corticosteroids. Four months later, his health status had deteriorated, and at that time diagnostic methods pointed to a cerebral lymphoma. Stereotactic biopsy with subsequent immunohistochemistry and polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed a highly malignant B-cell lymphoma of the CNS, despite prolonged corticosteroid treatment. The patient was treated with whole brain radiotherapy.
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