Rheumatoid Factor Positive Hypertrophic Cranial Pachymeningitis in Association with Hypopituitarism and Multiple Cranial Nerve Palsies

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 964-967

  Manabe, Yasuhiro ^a   Narai, Hisashi ^a   Warita, Hitoshi ^a   Hayashi, Takeshi ^a   Sakai, Kenichi ^a   Abe, Koji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Inflammatory disease; MRI

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; HORMONE; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

AGED; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035461874     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.964     Document Type: Article

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