Stiff person syndrome with cerebellar disease and high-titer anti-GAD antibodies

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1068-1070

  Rakocevic, Goran ^a   Raju, Raghavan ^a   Semino Mora, Cristina ^b   Dalakas, Marinos C ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Neuromuscular Diseases Section   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BACLOFEN; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LORAZEPAM; STEROID; TIAGABINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSARTHRIA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIFF PERSON SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; DIAZEPAM; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME;

EID: 33748984274     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000237558.83349.d0     Document Type: Article

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