Limbic encephalitis presenting with topographical disorientation and amnesia

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 110-112

  Hirayama, Kazumi ^a   Taguchi, Y ^a   Sato, M ^b   Tsukamoto, T ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Japan)

^c Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

AGED; AGNOSIA; AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AMNESIA; ATTENTION; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0037227045     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.1.110     Document Type: Article

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