Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis with perifocal brain edema

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 239-243

  Nakazaki, Hiromichi ^a   Tanaka, Toshihide ^a,b   Isoshima, Akira ^a   Hida, Toshiro ^a   Nakajima, Masato ^a   Abe, Toshiaki ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Fuji City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edema; Pachymeningitis; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 0034055710     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.239     Document Type: Article

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