Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis: Clinical features of 62 cases and a subgroup associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2279-2290

  Odaka, Masaaki ^a   Yuki, Nobuhiro ^a   Yamada, Mitsunori ^b   Koga, Michiaki ^a   Takemi, Toshihiko ^c   Hirata, Koichi ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^d  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti GQ1b antibody; Bickerstaff's brainstem encephalitis; Fisher syndrome; Guillain Barr syndrome

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; GANGLIOSIDE; GQ1B GANGLIOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BABINSKI REFLEX; BICKERSTAFFS BRAINSTEM ENCEPHALITIS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN STEM; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; GLIA; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL DISEASE; QUADRIPLEGIA; REMISSION; REVIEW; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATAXIA; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN STEM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GANGLIOSIDES; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 0242367913     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg233     Document Type: Review

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