Limbic encephalitis presenting with seizures, anterograde amnesia, and psychosis in a patient seven weeks status post immature ovarian teratoma removal

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 616-618

  Kleyensteuber, Brian ^a   Ruterbusch, Victor ^c   Bennett, Jason ^a   Llewellyn, David ^b   Loeffler, George ^a  

^a Department of Mental Health ^*  (Australia)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; OVARY TUMOR; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; TERATOMA;

ADULT; AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SEIZURES; STEROIDS; TERATOMA;

EID: 77955377265     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00250     Document Type: Article

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