Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis in a teenage girl with an immature ovarian teratoma

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 694-697

  Stein Wexler, Rebecca ^a   Wootton Gorges, Sandra L ^a   Greco, Claudia M ^b   Brunberg, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ovarian teratoma; Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Indexed keywords

OLIGOCLONAL BAND; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY TERATOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGECTOMY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA;

EID: 21344452349     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-005-1402-1     Document Type: Article

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