A case of persistent cerebellar ataxia complicated by conversion disorder - Confirmed by positive cerebrospinal fluid glutamate receptor δ2 and ε2 antibodies

No To Hattatsu

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-45

  Usui, Daisuke ^a,b   Mitsuda, Naomi ^a   Hosokawa, Takatoshi ^a   Fujieda, Mikiya ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^c   Wakiguchi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR DELTA 2 ANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR EPSILON 2 ANTIBODY; MEASLES RUBELLA VACCINE; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONVERSION DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOANTIBODIES; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CONVERSION DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 79551584987     PISSN: 00290831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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