A case of Hashimoto's encephalopathy associated with Graves' disease

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 619-622

  Saito, Hiroshi ^a   Fujita, Nobuya ^a   Miyakoshi, Masafumi ^a   Arai, Aki ^b   Nagai, Hiroko ^a  

^a NAGAOKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti thyroid peroxidase antibody; Brain SPECT; Graves' disease; Hashimoto's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTITHYROID AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROID BINDING INHIBITORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0036664777     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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