PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | encephalitis |
| Phenotype | C0039538|teratomas |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 25272299 | As some teratomas of patients with anti-nmdar encephalitis lack neuronal tissue, we questioned if there could be an alternate mechanism of the disease. |
| PubMedID- 23725534 | Nmdar encephalitis may be associated with neoplasms, usually teratomas of the ovaries or testes, but may also be postinfectious or idiopathic. |
| PubMedID- 20638543 | Increasingly, reports of anti-nmda receptor encephalitis associated with ovarian teratomas in pediatric patients, as well as a novel assay to measure these antibodies, suggest an etiology for this disease process that may be amenable to prompt surgical excision. |
| PubMedID- 24781184 | Results: central nervous system neuronal elements were detected in 4 of 5 teratomas resected from cases with nmdar encephalitis and in 20 of 39 controls (p = .36). |
| PubMedID- 22833082 | The histologic features of the teratomas associated with anti-nmdar encephalitis have seldom been described in detail. |
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