Neurological paraneoplastic syndromes

Springer Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-95

  Dalmau, Josep ^a,b   Posner, Jerome B ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS;

CANCER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

HUMANS; LAMBERT-EATON MYASTHENIC SYNDROME; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 0029941713     PISSN: 03444325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00792611     Document Type: Review

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