VGKC antibody-associated encephalitis, microbleeds and progressive brain atrophy

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 466-468

  Kapina, Viktoria ^a   Vargas, Maria Isabel ^a   Vulliemoz, Serge ^a   Landis, Theodor ^a   Picard, Fabienne ^a   Lalive, Patrice H ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETIRACETAM; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ANTIBODY;

AGED; AGITATION; ANTIBODY TITER; APHASIA; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FLUENCY DISORDER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ATROPHY; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALITIS; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NECROSIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951206344     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5370-5     Document Type: Letter

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