Editorial: PANDAS: Horse or zebra?

Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1252-1253

  Gilbert, Donald L ^a   Kurlan, Roger ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRITIS; CARDITIS; CHOREA MINOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEALTH SERVICE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PEDIATRIC AUTOIMMUNE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RHEUMATIC FEVER; CHILD; CHOREA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYNDROME; TIC;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHOREA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SYNDROME; TICS;

EID: 72249106875     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181beed27     Document Type: Editorial

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