NMDA receptor encephalitis causing reversible caudate changes on MRI and PET imaging

Neurology: Clinical Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 470-473

  Tobin, William O ^a   Strand, Edythe A ^a   Clark, Heather M ^a   Lowe, Val J ^a   Robertson, Carrie E ^a   Pittock, Sean J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; STEROID;

ADULT; ANTI N METHYL D ASPARTATE RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRADYKINESIA; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DYSARTHRIA; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TINNITUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925858766     PISSN: 21630402     EISSN: 21630933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000074     Document Type: Article

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