Sporadic fatal insomnia masquerading as a paraneoplastic cerebellar syndrome

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 971-973

  Mehta, Lahar R ^a   Huddleston, Brent J ^b   Skalabrin, Elaine J ^b   Burns, James B ^b   Zou, Wen Quan ^c   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^c   Chin, Steven S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR OLIVE; INSOMNIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SPORADIC FATAL INSOMNIA; THALAMUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSOMNIA, FATAL FAMILIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 47549101267     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.65.7.971     Document Type: Article

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