Seizures, psychosis and coma: Severe course of Hashimoto encephalopathy in a six-year-old girl

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 197-199

  Hoffmann, F ^a   Reiter, K ^a   Kluger, G ^b   Holthausen, H ^b   Schwarz, H P ^a   Borggraefe, I ^a   Bonfig, W ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BHZ Vogtareuth ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Coma; Hashimoto thyroiditis; Thyroid antibodies

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; LEVOTHYROXINE; MEPREDNISONE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; SULTIAME; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MOOD DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE;

BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; COMA; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES;

EID: 37749014484     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-991145     Document Type: Article

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