Autoimmune paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration in ovarian carcinoma patients treated with plasmapheresis and immunoglobulin: A case report

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2153-2156

  David, Yehuda Ben ^a   Warner, Ellen ^b   Levitan, Maurice ^c   Sutton, David M S ^d   Malkin, Mark G ^e   Dalmau, Josep O ^e  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Department of Neurology   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

intravenous immunoglobulin; ovarian carcinoma; paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration; plasmapheresis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; DYSMETRIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; OVARY CARCINOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR; VERTIGO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CARCINOMA; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PLASMAPHERESIS; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 0029960490     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961115)78:10<2153::AID-CNCR16>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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