Successive affection of bilateral temporomesial structures in a case of non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis demonstrated by serial MRI and FDG-PET

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 256, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1753-1755

  Chatzikonstantinou, Anastasios ^a   Szabo, Kristina ^a   Ottomeyer, Caroline ^a   Kern, Rolf ^a   Hennerici, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GABAPENTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AGED; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISORIENTATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NON PARANEOPLASTIC LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SPEECH DISORDER; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349652245     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5165-8     Document Type: Letter

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