A case of rheumatoid pachymeningitis

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 834-840

  Otsuka, Mieko ^a   Fujiwara, Toshifumi ^a   Kuwata, Yoshimine ^a   Yamada, Shigeki ^a   Ueki, Akira ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic hypertrophic pachymeningitis; Cranial polyneuropathy; Headache; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rheumatoid pachymeningitis

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; POLYNEUROPATHY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID NODULE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031472877     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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