Thymoma-associated progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus successfully treated with thymectomy and intravenous immunoglobulin

European Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 328-330

  Uehara, Taira ^a   Murai, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamasaki, Ryo ^a   Kikuchi, Hitoshi ^a   Shigeto, Hiroshi ^a   Ohyagi, Yasumasa ^a   Kira, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANXIETY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPITHELIOID CELL; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOTHERAPY; IRRITABILITY; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYALGIA; MYOCLONUS; OROPHARYNX; PERM SYNDROME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SPEECH DISORDER; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYOCLONUS; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80855143824     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: 14219913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332033     Document Type: Letter

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