Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: Easy to suspect, difficult to prove

Neurology India

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 4-5

  Misra, U K ^a   Kalita, J ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

BIOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC HYPERTROPHIC CRANIAL PACHYMENINGITIS; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; SYMPTOM;

BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; MENINGITIS;

EID: 0036225812     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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