Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: neurological symptoms, immunological findings and tumour association in 50 patients.

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Published in Brain on July 01, 2000

Authors

S H Gultekin1, M R Rosenfeld, R Voltz, J Eichen, J B Posner, J Dalmau

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology and the Cotzias Laboratory of Neuro-Oncology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

IVIG Treatment for Refractory Immune-Related Adult Epilepsy | NCT01545518

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