What's in a NAIM? Hashimoto encephalopathy, steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis, or nonvasculitic autoimmune meningoencephalitis?

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-176

  Chong, Ji Y ^a   Rowland, Lewis P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; THYROID ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONVASCULITIC AUTOIMMUNE MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID RESPONSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 32944475463     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.63.2.175     Document Type: Editorial

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