Clinical and diagnostic aspects of encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroid disease (or Hashimoto's encephalopathy)

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-23

  Tamagno, Gianluca ^a   Federspil, Giovanni ^a   Murialdo, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoimmune thyroiditis; Autoimmunity; Corticosteroids; Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750098246     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02934715     Document Type: Review

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