Severe chronic headache with depression induced by pachymeningitis in Wegener's granulomatosis;Chronischer kopfschmerz mit depression durch pachymeningitis bei Wegener-granulomatose

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 185-188

  Von Bierbrauer, Axel F G ^a,b   Pelzer, C ^a   Fischer, V ^a  

^a Abteilung Innere Medizin Städtisches Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic headache; Pachymeningitis; PR3 ANCA; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYELOBLASTIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MENINX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEINURIA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MENINGITIS; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGES; MENINGITIS; MYELOBLASTIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEINURIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 38549148046     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1017494     Document Type: Article

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