Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis associated with total occlusion of the dural sinuses: Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 650-654

  Oiwa, Yoshitsugu ^a   Hyotani, Genhachi ^b   Kamei, Ichiro ^b   Itakura, Toru ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUWA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dura mater; Inflammation; Seizure; Thrombosis; Venous infarction

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DURA MATER; EMISSARY VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC HYPERTROPHIC CRANIAL PACHYMENINGITIS; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SEIZURE; THROMBOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VEIN;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CRANIAL SINUSES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS; SEIZURES;

EID: 11144308770     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.650     Document Type: Article

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