CSF findings in patients with voltage gated potassium channel antibody associated limbic encephalitis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 74-77

  Jarius, S ^a,b   Hoffmann, L ^a   Clover, L ^b   Vincent, A ^b   Voltz, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Limbic encephalitis; Voltage gated potassium channel antibodies

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPHOCYTE; MONOCYTE; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LACTIC ACID; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOCLONAL BANDS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 40849086590     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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