Crow-Fukase syndrome associated with Castleman disease showing hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis and bilateral internal carotid artery occlusion

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 456-460

  Hori, Tomohiko ^a   Tsuboi, Yoshio ^a   Okubo, Ryoko ^a   Hirooka, Mitsuru ^a   Yamada, Tatsuo ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Crow Fukase syndrome; Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis; Internal carotid artery occlusion; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CROW FUKASE SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DURA MATER; FEMALE; GIANT LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POEMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0033047919     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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