Pachymeningoencephalitis: Case report

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 595-598

  Shimooka, Nao ^a,c   Utsunomiya, Ryuichi ^a   Kubo, Shigeki ^a   Hasegawa, Hiroshi ^a   Tominaga, Shinsuke ^a   Yoshimine, Toshiki ^b  

^a Tominaga Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c Tominaga Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypertrophic pachymeningitis; Pachymeningoencephalitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DURA MATER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENCHYMA; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 20444393136     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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