A case of glioblastoma misdiagnosed initially due to positive finding of anti-glutamate receptor antibody

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 497-500

  Rokutanda, Taku ^a   Inatomi, Yuichiro ^a   Yonehara, Toshiro ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^b   Hirano, Teruyuki ^c   Uchino, Makoto ^c  

^a SAISEIKAI KUMAMOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti glutamate receptor antibody; Glioblastoma; Limbic encephalopathy; MRI

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PLEOCYTOSIS; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 51149109559     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.48.497     Document Type: Article

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