Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Psychosomatics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 108-113

  Caplan, Jason P ^a   Foster, Alison R ^b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHYSIN ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CHLORPROMAZINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CV2 ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; HU ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MA2 ANTIBODY; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NMDAR ANTIBODY; OLANZAPINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; RI ANTIBODY; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VGKC ANTIBODY;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ATAXIA; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CATATONIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COMA; CONFABULATION; CONFUSION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DYSARTHRIA; DYSTONIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; EYE DISEASE; HALLUCINATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOVENTILATION; IMAGING; KIDNEY CANCER; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD CHANGE; MOOD DISORDER; MUTISM; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROPATHY; ONCOGENE; ORBITAL CORTEX; OVARY TERATOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARANOIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TESTIS CANCER; THYMOMA; TREMOR; URINE INCONTINENCE; VERTIGO; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 66749140975     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.50.2.108     Document Type: Review

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