Autoimmune encephalitis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7818, 2011, Pages

  Irani, Sarosh R ^a   Vincent, Angela ^a,b   Schott, Jonathan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; SODIUM; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AMNESIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ANXIETY; AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DYSTONIC DISORDER; EDITORIAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; MEMORY DISORDER; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SEROLOGY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 84859001204     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d1918     Document Type: Editorial

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