A case of non-herpetic acute limbic encephalitis associated with a type-2 adenovirus infection

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 322-327

  Nagasawa, Hikaru ^a   Wada, Manabu ^a   Kurita, Keiji ^a   Iseki, Chihumi ^b   Katagiri, Tadashi ^b   Kato, Takeo ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yamagata Prefectural Kahoku Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute limbic encephalitis; Convulsive state; Liver dysfunction; Preceding infection; Type 2 adenovirus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; STEROID; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS 2; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLEOCYTOSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STEROID THERAPY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33746909888     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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