Potassium channel antibody-associated encephalitis with hypothalamic lesions and intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 176-179

  Sekiguchi, Yukari ^a   Takahashi, Hirokatsu ^a   Mori, Masahiro ^a   Ito, Shoichi ^a   Shimada, Hitoshi ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysfunction; Intestinal pseudo obstruction; Isaacs' syndrome; Limbic encephalitis; Morvan's syndrome; Voltage gated potassium channel antibodies

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYOKYMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; THYMOMA;

ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43049134035     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.12.019     Document Type: Article

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