A case of anti-Hu antibody- and anti-GluRε2 antibody-positive paraneoplastic neurological syndrome presenting with limbic encephalitis and peripheral neuropathy

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 467-472

  Samejima, Shoko ^a   Tateishi, Takahisa ^a   Arahata, Hajime ^a   Shigeto, Hiroshi ^a   Ohyagi, Yasumasa ^a   Kira, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti GlR 2 antibody; Anti Hu antibody; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Paraneoplastic neurological syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR EPSILON 2 ANTIBODY; HU ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVULSION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY NEUROPATHY;

EID: 77955823485     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.50.467     Document Type: Article

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