(Neurological CPC · 45) -A 63-year old man with progressive jait disturbance and dysarthria

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 865-875

  Nakamura, Noriyuki ^a   Ohta, Satoru ^b   Matsumoto, Michio ^b   Mori, Hideo ^a   Takubo, Hideki ^a   Mizuno, Yoshikuni ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinomatous cerebellar degeneration; Cerebellar ataxia; Cerebellar degeneration; Limbic encephalitis; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSARTHRIA; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME;

CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 0029794147     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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