Glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody-positive paraneoplastic stiff limb syndrome associated with carcinoma of the breast

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 449-451

  Agarwal, Pankaj A ^a   Ichaporia, Nasli R ^b  

^a Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital   (India)

^b JEHANGIR HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody; paraneoplastic; stiff limb syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHYSIN; BACLOFEN; CREATINE KINASE; DIAZEPAM; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY POSTURE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; JOINT LIMITATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; RANGE OF MOTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; STIFF LIMB SYNDROME; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; STOMACH PARIETAL CELL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TENDON REFLEX; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WEIGHT BEARING; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; CARCINOMA; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC POLYNEUROPATHY; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME;

EID: 77955063467     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.65704     Document Type: Article

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