Testicular teratoma and anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-associated encephalitis

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1082-1083

  Eker, A ^a   Saka, E ^a   Dalmau, J ^b   Kurne, A ^a   Bilen, C ^a   Ozen, H ^a   Ertoy, D ^a   Oguz K K ^a   Elibol, Bülent ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GLUCOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANAMNESIS; APNEA; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRADYCARDIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DELUSION; DETERIORATION; DIAPHORESIS; DYSKINESIA; DYSTONIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOLALIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORCHIECTOMY; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; RIGIDITY; TACHYCARDIA; TESTIS TERATOMA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEMINOMA; TERATOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 50449092528     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.147611     Document Type: Letter

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