Pure ataxia associated with N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antibodies

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 568-569

  Aguiar de Sousa, Diana ^a   Lobo, Patrícia Pita ^a   Caldas, Ana Castro ^a   Coelho, Miguel ^a   Albuquerque, Luísa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anti NMDA receptor antibodies; Ataxia; Autoimmune; Encephalitis; Movement disorders

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; AZITHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIBODY;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ATAXIA; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLERGY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEVER; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LETTER; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; MYCOPLASMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SEROLOGY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY;

AGED; ATAXIA; AUTOANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84899995517     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2014.02.015     Document Type: Letter

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