Temporal lobe seizures, amnesia and autoantibodies - Identifying a potentially reversible form of non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-179

  Vincent, Angela ^a   Bien, Christian G ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MYOKYMIA; NON PARANEOPLASTIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SEIZURE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; PILOERECTION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; SEIZURES;

EID: 25844518056     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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