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Autoimmune encephalopathies.
Pediatric clinics of North America - 1 Jun 2015
Lim Ming, Hacohen Yael, Vincent Angela
Abstract excerpt
Antibody-mediated diseases of the central nervous system are a relatively new and challenging field in autoimmune neurologic disease and of major clinical importance in children and adults. The antibodies bind to cell-surface epitopes on neuronal or glial proteins, and the patients demonstrate either focal or more generalized clinical signs depending on the extent of brain regions targeted by the antibodies. The...
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