Clinical/scientific notes

Neurology: Neuroimmunology and NeuroInflammation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Doppler, Kathrin ^a   Schleyer, Barbara ^a   Geis, Christian ^a,b   Grünewald, Benedikt ^a,b   Putz, Evelyn ^a   Villmann, Carmen ^a   Sommer, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA AUTOANTIBODY; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA1; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA2; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; PROTEIN A; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MASSETER INHIBITORY REFLEX; MASSETER MUSCLE; NOTE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFLEX; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRISMUS; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 85021010312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23327812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000000186     Document Type: Note

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