Teaching NeuroImages: NMDA encephalomyelitis with MRI abnormalities isolated to ventral spinal cord gray matter

A 17-year-old girl presented with a month of anxiety followed by acute psychosis, catatonia, choreoathetosis, seizures, autonomic instability, lower extremity spasticity, and hyperreflexia. CSF was positive for the NMDA antibody; additional antibodies and infectious etiologies tested negative. MRI b...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Neurology 2015-08, Vol.85 (6), p.e55-e56
Hauptverfasser:	Zubkov, Sarah, Aggarwal Joshi, Puja, Shepherd, Timothy M, Kothare, Sanjeev V
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis - diagnosis Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis - physiopathology Female Gray Matter - pathology Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging Resident and Fellow Section Spinal Cord - pathology
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