Autoimmune encephalitis as differential diagnosis of infectious encephalitis
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Autoimmune encephalitis as differential diagnosis of infectious encephalitis.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review describes the main types of autoimmune encephalitis with special emphasis on those associated with antibodies against neuronal cell surface or synaptic proteins, and the differential diagnosis with infectious encephalitis. RECENT FINDINGS There is a continuous expansion of the number of cell surface or synaptic proteins that are targets of autoimmunity. The most ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1350-7540
DOI: 10.1097/wco.0000000000000087