Long-term improvement of idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis by lymphocytapheresis

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 313-316

  Yamamoto, Takeshi ^a,b   Goto, Keigo ^a   Suzuki, Asuka ^a   Nakamura, Noriyuki ^a   Mizuno, Yoshikuni ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD4; CD4 CD8 ratio; Duramater; Lymphocytapheresis; Pachymeningitis; Steroid

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FACE PAIN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC HYPERTROPHIC CRANIAL PACHYMENINGITIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CD4-CD8 RATIO; DURA MATER; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LEUKAPHERESIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033864849     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.2000.004004313.x     Document Type: Article

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