Propriospinal myoclonus with life threatening tonic spasms as paraneoplastic presentation of breast cancer [3]

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 422-424

  Salsano, E ^a   Ciano, C ^a   Romano, S ^b   Cornelio, F ^a   Di Donate, S ^a   Pareyson, Davide ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GABAPENTIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; HU ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TUMOR MARKER; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOCLONUS; MYOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCLONUS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPASM; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33644524995     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.072066     Document Type: Letter

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