Acute ataxia, Graves' disease, and stiff person syndrome

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1969-1971

  Chia, Su Ynn ^a   Chua, Richard ^a   Lo, Yew Long ^a   Wong, Meng Cheong ^a   Chan, Ling Ling ^a   Tan, Eng King ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Graves' disease; Stiff person syndrome

Indexed keywords

CARBIMAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTITHYROID AGENTS; ATAXIA; AUTOANTIBODIES; CARBIMAZOLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME; STROKE; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 36248987753     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21703     Document Type: Article

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