Central nervous system vasculitis with positive antithyroid antibodies in an adolescent boy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-192

  Tsai, Sarah L ^a   Lewis, Evan C ^a   Sell, Erick ^a   Whiting, Sharon ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD20 ANTIBODY; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CLOBAZAM; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; TOPIRAMATE;

ADOLESCENT; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYTEM VASCULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CORNEA REFLEX; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SWALLOWING; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VASCULITIS;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEIZURES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 80051507388     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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