Anti-Ta-associated paraneoplastic encephalitis with occult testicular intratubular germ-cell neoplasia [1]

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 651-652

  Prüss, Harold ^a   Voltz, Raymond ^b   Flath, Bernd ^a   Rudolph, Birgit ^a   Klingebiel, Randolf ^a   Zschenderlein, Rolf ^a   Prass, Konstantin ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ANTIBODY; CANCER ANTIBODY; TA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MA2 ANTIGEN; NERVE PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; TESTIS TUMOR;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NERVOUS SYSTEM; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249719635     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.101964     Document Type: Letter

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