Anti-Ma2 paraneoplastic encephalitis associated with testicular germ cell tumor treated by carboplatin, etoposide and bleomycin

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 942-943

  Kimura, Masaki ^a,b,d   Onozawa, Mizuki ^a   Fujisaki, Akira ^a   Arakawa, Takashi ^a   Takeda, Katsuhiko ^a   Dalmau, Joseph ^c   Hattori, Kazunori ^a  

^a International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Ma2 antigen; Paraneoplastic; Secretion of antidiuretic hormone; Testicular tumor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SEIZURE; SEROLOGY; TESTIS TUMOR; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETOPOSIDE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORCHIECTOMY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NERVOUS SYSTEM; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 54049156493     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2008.02119.x     Document Type: Article

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