Cerebellar ataxia associated with neuroendocrine thymic carcinoma and GAD antibodies

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 696-697

  Bataller, L ^a,e   Valero, C ^b   Diaz R ^a   Froufe, A ^a   Garcia Zarza, A ^a   Ribalta, T ^c   Vilchez, J J ^a,e   Saiz, A ^d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; AUTOANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ADULT; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THYMUS CANCER; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PATHOLOGY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS;

AUTOANTIBODIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 66149150209     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.161042     Document Type: Letter

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