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A detailed history and examination, clinical suspicion and thorough investigations are a must for its diagnosis. An atypical neurological presentation of the underlying disease was diagnosed with clinical acumen and extensive workup. The patient had a history of altered sensorium and headache (initial suspicion of meningitis) and had normal blood investigations and normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) reports. Findings in the MRI of the brain were the clue to the diagnosis. The patient was later worked up for the underlying source of malignancy which turned out to be adenocarcinoma of the right lung. But CSF reports were negative for the paraneoplastic panel. Small cell carcinoma of the lung is commonly known to cause seronegative paraneoplastic encephalitis, but there are no such reports with adenocarcinoma of the lung. Thus, we emphasise for extensive cancer evaluation in all subacutely presenting neurological syndromes with normal CSF reports. 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