Bilateral temporal glioma presenting as a paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis with pure cognitive impairment

Neurologist

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 208-211

  Deramecourt, Vincent ^a   Bombois, Stéphanie ^a   Debette, Stéphanie ^a   Delbeuck, Xavier ^a   Ramirez, Carole ^a   Reyns, Nicolas ^a   Kerdraon, Olivier ^a   Maurage, Claude Alain ^a   Pasquier, Florence ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bilateral limbic glioma; Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis; Young onset dementia

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 70349758607     PISSN: 10747931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NRL.0b013e31818fc022     Document Type: Article

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