Case report non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis characterized by mesio-temporal seizures and extratemporal lesions: A case report

Seizure

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 446-449

  Cianci, Vittoria ^a   Labate, Angelo ^a   Lanza, Pierluigi ^c   Vincent, Angela ^d   Gambardella, Antonio ^a,c   Branca, Damiano ^b   Arcudi, Luciano ^b   Aguglia, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b Neurological Unit   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Epilepsy; GAD; Limbic encephalitis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Seizures

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TOPIRAMATE; AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NON PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; BLOOD; BRAIN; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURES;

EID: 77955982545     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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