FDG-PET and MRI in potassium channel antibody-associated non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: Correlation with clinical course and neuropsychology

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 338-343

  Fauser, Susanne ^a   Talazko, J ^a   Wagner, K ^a   Ziyeh, S ^a   Jarius, S ^b   Vincent, A ^c   Schulze Bonhage, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FDG PET; Limbic encephalitis; MRI memory; Voltage gated potassium channel antibody

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONPARANEOPLASTIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SEIZURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 17644402471     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2005.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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