Dystonia, athetosis, and epilepsia partialis continua in a patient with late-onset Rasmussen's encephalitis

Movement Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 609-612

  Frucht, Steven ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; ATHETOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME;

ADULT; ATHETOSIS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRAIN; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036589895     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10131     Document Type: Article

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