Symmetric sensorineural progressive hearing loss from chronic idiopathic pachymeningitis

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-110

  Bovo, Roberto ^a   Berto, Anna ^a   Palma, Silvia ^a   Ceruti, Stefano ^a   Martini, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Hypertrophic pachymeningitis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rheumatoid factor; Vestibular areflexia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PACHYMENINGITIS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33947257478     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020600969744     Document Type: Article

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