Autoimmune encephalopathy: The spectrum widens

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  Darnell, Robert B ^a   Posner, Jerome B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1 ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTI NMDAR ENCEPHALITIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BREAST CANCER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DRUG MEGADOSE; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPSOCLONUS; OVARY TERATOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RELAPSE; SEIZURE; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYMOMA; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS;

EID: 69249125271     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21759     Document Type: Editorial

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