Anti-N-methyl-D-Aspartate-Receptor Encephalitis in a Four-Year-Old Girl

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 332-334

  Biancheri, Roberta ^a   Pessagno, Alice ^a   Baglietto, Maria Giuseppina ^a   Irani, Sarosh R ^c   Rossi, Andrea ^b   Giribaldi, Gaia ^a   Badenier, Marisol Mirabelli ^a   Vincent, Angela ^c   Veneselli, Edvige ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTI N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHILD; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSKINESIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; VIRUS INFECTION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

APHASIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEIZURES;

EID: 74549221897     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.07.057     Document Type: Article

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