Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus: Resolution after thymectomy

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 303-304

  Clerinx, K ^a   Breban, T ^a   Schrooten, M ^a   Leite, M I ^b   Vincent, A ^b   Verschakelen, J ^a   Tousseyn, T ^a   Vandenberghe, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACLOFEN; CREATINE KINASE; DIAZEPAM; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONSTIPATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEG PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS WITH RIGIDITY AND MYOCLONUS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SPEECH DISORDER; TETANUS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRISMUS; URINE RETENTION; XEROSTOMIA;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYOCLONUS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751612491     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318207b008     Document Type: Article

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