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N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies in pediatric dyskinetic encephalitis lethargica.
Annals of neurology - 1 Nov 2009
Dale Russell C, Irani Sarosh R, Brilot Fabienne, Pillai Sekhar, Webster Richard, Gill Deepak, Lang Bethan, Vincent Angela
Abstract excerpt
Encephalitis lethargica (EL) describes an encephalitis with psychiatric, sleep, and extrapyramidal movement disorders. Dyskinetic and parkinsonian forms have been described. EL shares clinical features with the anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR-Ab) encephalitis. We studied 20 sera from pediatric patients with contemporary EL. Ten sera (from 2 males and 8 females, aged 1.3-13 years) and 6/6 cerebrospinal...
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