Paediatric anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis with ovarian teratoma

• Main Authors: Masato Kojima (Author), Sho Kurihara (Author), Isamu Saeki (Author), Hiroki Izumo (Author), Yuichi Tateishi (Author), Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (Author), Nobutsune Ishikawa (Author), Koji Arihiro (Author), Shinya Takahashi (Author), Eiso Hiyama (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Herein, we report two paediatric cases of ovarian teratoma-associated anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis. We performed surgical resection of the teratomas-enucleation in case 1 and salpingo-oophorectomy in case 2. The pathological diagnoses were immature teratomas with a small n...