A serologic marker of paraneoplastic limbic and brain-stem encephalitis in patients with testicular cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 1788-1795

  Voltz, Raymond ^a   Gultekin, S Humayun ^a   Rosenfeld, Myrna R ^a   Gerstner, Elizabeth ^a   Eichen, Joseph ^a   Posner, Jerome B ^a   Dalmau, Josep ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA LIBRARY; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TESTIS CANCER;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN STEM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033542479     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199906103402303     Document Type: Article

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