Stiff man syndrome with invasive thymic carcinoma

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-196

  Aghajanzadeh, Manouchehr ^a   Alavi, Ali ^a   Aghajanzadeh, Gilda ^a   Massahania, Sara ^a  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Stiff man syndrome; Thymic tumor; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PERICARDIECTOMY; STERNOTOMY; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS CANCER;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; STIFF-PERSON SYNDROME; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874619699     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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