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Routine laboratory testing, lumbar puncture, serum and cerebrospinal fluid testing for viral and paraneoplastic encephalitis, and brain biopsy were performed on our patient. Our clinical diagnosis was viral encephalitis, and positive N-type voltage-gated calcium channel antibody titres were suggestive of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis. 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