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Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis (PLE) is a disorder characterized by severe cognitive dysfunction and seizures. It is usually associated with small cell lung carcinoma. Diagnosis is difficult because clinical markers are often lacking, and symptoms usually precede the diagnosis of cancer. Serological detection of antineuronal antibodies can be useful. We describe a patient with symptoms of limbic encephalitis, negative for paraneoplastic antibodies, in whom lung cancer was detected.

Septic thrombophlebitis of internal jugular vein following oropharyngeal infections, referred to as postanginal sepsis, was first described at the beginning of the century by Lemièrre. For diagnostic of Lemièrre's syndrome, distant metastatic abscesses from septic embolization are required. These are placed most frequently in the lungs, but also occurred in soft tissues. Two cases of this unusual syndrome seen in a year period, are reported in this brief communication. We described the first liver metastatic infection, in the syndrome. Successful result was observed when we use a low molecular weight heparin as treatment in the septic thrombophlebitis of internal jugular vein.

Acute rhabdomyolysis (ARM) is a clinico-biological syndrome characterized by the lesion of the skeletal muscle resulting in a disorder of the permeability at the membrane of the muscle cells, with the release of intracellular substances to the plasma, mainly proteins and ions. We present the case of a chronic alcoholic patient which, after a period of several days in which he increased his consumption of alcohol, developed clinical signs of acute rhabdomyolytic alcoholic myopathy (AREM) associated to acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH). In the review of the literature, we did not find any description of the association between AREM and acute hepatitis of alcoholic origin. We consider the nonspecificity of the clinical signs of the AREM and we suggest the systematic assessment of creatine-phosphokinase in patients at risk.