Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis caused by ovarian teratoma with autoantibodies to glutamata receptor

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1019-1022

  Okamoto, Sadahisa ^a   Hirano, Teruyuki ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^b   Yamashita, Taro ^a   Uyama, Eiichiro ^a   Uchino, Makoto ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glutamate receptor; Ovarian teratoma; Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; OLANZAPINE; RISPERIDONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY TERATOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; RARE DISEASES; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547902844     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6466     Document Type: Article

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