Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder of the small arteries that causes ischemic vascular events, subcortical dementia, behavioral changes, and migraine-like headaches. It is caused by a mutation in the NOTCH3 gene; this disease was first described in 1955 by van Bogaert. We present a 29-year-old woman who presented to the neurology department.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMelanoma metastasis from an unknown primary cancer has an incidence of 3.2% among melanoma patients. Furthermore, paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are rare, occurring in 1-3% of patients with malignancies.
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