Downbeat nystagmus as the initial manifestation of anti-NMDAR encephalitis

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 125-126

  Tsuyusaki, Yohei ^a   Sakakibara, Ryuji ^a   Kishi, Masahiko ^a   Tateno, Fuyuki ^a   Yoshida, Tomoe ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti NMDAR encephalitis; Cerebellar vermis; Downbeat nystagmus; Limbic encephalitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; APNEA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DELIRIUM; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALITIS; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LETTER; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MUTISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCULAR FLUTTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TERATOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTI-N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892678280     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-013-1511-9     Document Type: Letter

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