Steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis in an adolescent with chronic hallucinations and depression: Case report and review

Pediatrics

Volumn 112, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 686-690

  Mahmud, Farid H ^a   Lteif, Aida N ^a   Renaud, Deborah L ^a   Reed, Ann M ^a   Brands, Chad K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; QUETIAPINE; SERTRALINE; STEROID; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMNOLENCE; THYROID FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; PREDNISONE; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0041336965     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.112.3.686     Document Type: Article

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