Paraneoplastic chorea: Case study with autopsy confirmation

Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 192-195

  Tremont Lukats, Ivo W ^a   Fuller, Gregory N ^a   Ribalta, Teresa ^a   Giglio, Pierre ^a   Groves, Morris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BENZATROPINE; CISPLATIN; CLONAZEPAM; ETOPOSIDE; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL;

AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHOREA; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROGLIA; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PURKINJE CELL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

BRAIN; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; CHOREA; FATAL OUTCOME; GAIT APRAXIA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PURKINJE CELLS; VERTIGO;

EID: 0036660779     PISSN: 15228517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/S1522851701000643     Document Type: Article

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