The "pulvinar sign" in a case of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 882-884

  Mihara, M ^a   Sugase, S ^a   Kanaka, K ^a   Sugai, F ^a   Sato, T ^a   Yamamoto, Y ^a   Hirota, S ^b   Sakai, K ^c   Sakoda, S ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; PULVINAR SIGN; RARE DISEASE; THALAMUS;

AXILLA; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PULVINAR; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 20444384816     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.049783     Document Type: Article

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