Unusual manifestations in two cases of necrotizing myopathy associated with SRP-antibodies

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1104-1106

  Hanisch, F ^a   Muller T ^a   Stoltenburg, G ^a   Zierz, S ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis; Guillain Barr syndrome; Miller Fisher syndrome; Necrotizing myopathy; Paraneoplastic syndrome; Renal adenocarcinoma; SRP antibody

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; PREDNISONE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERHIDROSIS; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MYOPATHY; NEPHRECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA; SPEECH DISORDER; WEAKNESS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILLER FISHER SYNDROME; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NERVOUS SYSTEM; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864289804     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.12.055     Document Type: Article

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