VGCC antibody-positive paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration presenting with positioning vertigo

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1209-1212

  Ogawa, Emina ^a   Sakakibara, Ryuji ^a   Kawashima, Kengo ^a   Yoshida, Tomoe ^a   Kishi, Masahiko ^a   Tateno, Fuyuki ^a   Kataoka, Manabu ^a   Kawashima, Tatsuo ^a   Yamamoto, Masahiko ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Paraneoplastic syndrome; Positional vertigo; Subacute cerebellar degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GRANISETRON; IRINOTECAN; N TYPE VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DEHYDRATION; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FALLING; FEMALE; FOREARM FRACTURE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; NYSTAGMUS; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; SHOULDER PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNSTEADINESS; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

AGED; ANTIBODIES; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTIGO;

EID: 84856212701     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-011-0648-7     Document Type: Article

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