Anti-amphiphysin antibody-positive paraneoplastic neurological syndrome with a longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesion of the dorsal column

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 572-576

  Neshige, Shuichiro ^a   Hara, Naoyuki ^a,b   Takeshima, Shinichi ^a   Iwaki, Hirotaka ^a,c   Shimoe, Yutaka ^a   Takamatsu, Kazuhiro ^a   Kuriyama, Masaru ^a  

^a Subaru Health Insurance Society Ota Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti amphiphysin antibody; Breast cancer; Dorsal root ganglion; Longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesion of the dorsal column; Subacute sensory neuropathy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHYSIN ANTIBODY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMPHIPHYSIN; AUTOANTIBODY; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PARESTHESIA; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL GANGLION; THORACOSCOPY; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NERVOUS SYSTEM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, NERVOUS SYSTEM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 84906077994     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.54.572     Document Type: Article

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