Thymoma-associated panencephalitis: a newly emerging paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome.

Recently, a few case reports of thymoma-associated panencephalitis (TAPE) have brought to light a disease entity that has not been fully characterized. Literature review of TAPE reveals an array of associated neuronal antibodies, with varied responses to thymomectomy with or without immunotherapy. This report describes a case of TAPE and proposes that the GABA receptor antibody is a potential target antigen driving the immune process in this disease entity.