Treatment responsive opsoclonus-ataxia associated with ovarian teratoma

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 581-582

  Kawachi, I ^a   Saji, E ^a   Toyoshima, Y ^a   Dalmau, J ^b   Nishizawa, M ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPSOCLONUS MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; OVARY TERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; TERATOMA;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPSOCLONUS-MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; STEROIDS; TERATOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952562126     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.177261     Document Type: Letter

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