Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a patient with Good's syndrome

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sveinsson, Olafur ^a   Matell, Henrik ^a   Herrman, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEFLOQUINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIRTAZAPINE;

AGED; AGRAPHIA; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GOOD SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; JC VIRUS; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; SYNDROME; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; VIRUS DETECTION; VISUAL DISORDER; WHITE MATTER; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; AGED; BLINDNESS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84883020870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-009763     Document Type: Article

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