Hashimoto's encephalopathy with clinical features similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 903-905

  De Cerqueira, Ana Cláudia Rodrigues ^a,b,c,e   Bezerra, José Marcelo Ferreira ^a,b   De Magalhães, Gérson Canedo ^a,b   Rozenthal, Márcia ^a,d   Nardi, Antônio Egídio ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Neurology Service

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LABORATORY TEST; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 58149241298     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2008000600029     Document Type: Article

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