Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis with accumulation of thallium-201 on single-photon emission CT

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 450-453

  Nishioka, Hiroshi ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Haraoka, Jo ^a   Yamada, Yuji ^a   Nojima, Hirokatsu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; STEROID; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PACHYMENINGITIS; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; SEPSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEROID THERAPY; TOLOSA HUNT SYNDROME;

BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MIDDLE AGED; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0032231928     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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