Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

European Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 106-108

  Pearce, J M S ^a,b  

^a HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHYSIN; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; HU PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISONE; SEMAPHORIN;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BRAIN STEM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPSOCLONUS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTORY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 20544438855     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085512     Document Type: Article

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