Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Associated with Anti-phospholipid Syndrome, Showing Massive Intracranial Calcifications

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 885-888

  Shimojima, Yasuhiro ^a   Gono, Takahisa ^a   Hoshi, Kenichi ^a   Yamamoto, Kanji ^a   Yoshida, Kunihiro ^b   Matsuda, Masayuki ^a   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid syndrome; Intracranial calcification; Neuropsychiatric SLE; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WHITE MATTER;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BRAIN DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0344441758     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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