Paraneoplastic syndrome simulating encephalitis in the course of testicular seminoma

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 24-28

  Kałuza, Józef ^a   Słowiński, Jerzy ^b   Bujny, Tomasz ^c   Grochala, Mariusz ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c Military Clinical Hospital Krakow   (Poland)

Author keywords

Paraneoplastic syndrome; Testicular seminoma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; FATALITY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; SEMINOMA; TESTIS TUMOR;

AGED; ATROPHY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0010171986     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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