Idiopathic hypertrophic cervical pachymeningitis: A case report with 5 year follow up

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 51, Issue APR, 2003, Pages 391-393

  Khadilkar, S V ^a,b   Menezes, K ^a   Parekh, H N ^c   Ursekar, M ^a   Bhagwati, S N ^a  

^a SIR J J GROUP OF HOSPITALS   (India)

^b BOMBAY HOSPITAL   (India)

^c Bombay Hospital Institute on Medical Sciences ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INDIA; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AZATHIOPRINE; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INDIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 0038728772     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: 00045772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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