Kinetic tremor and cerebellar ataxia as initial manifestations of Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 181-183

  Moon, Ju sun ^a   Il Kim, Gwang ^a   Koo, Young Ho ^a   Kim, Hyun Sook ^a   Kim, Won Chan ^a   Kim, Ok joon ^a   Oh, Seung hun ^a  

^a CHA University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acute cerebellar symptom; Ataxia; Cervical lymphadenopathy; Kikuchi Fujimoto's disease; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSMETRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIKUCHI FUJIMOTO DISEAS; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTIC NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITIS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREMOR;

EID: 58149291841     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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