Neuropsychiatric disorders revealing primary antiphospholipid syndrome in an elderly patient

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1362-1363

  Debiais, S ^a   Bonnaud, I ^a   Ferreira Maldent, N ^a   Mercier, E ^a   De Toffol, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISONE; STEROID; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DELUSION; HALLUCINATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; DELUSIONS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65349138193     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181a0fd69     Document Type: Article

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