Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis attributable to thymoma

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 879-880

  Chaudhry, Mohammed S ^a   Waters, Marie ^a   Gilligan, David ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548432948     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181461b13     Document Type: Article

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