Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis in countries endemic for tuberculosis: Diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 418-427

  Shobha, N ^a   Mahadevan, A ^a   Taly, A B ^a   Sinha, S ^a   Srikanth, S G ^a   Satish, S ^a   Nandagopal, R ^a   Arunodaya, G R ^a   Chandramouli, B A ^a   Shankar, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis; MRI; Sarcoidosis; Tuberculosis; Vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CELL COUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DURA MATER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC CRANIAL PACHYMENINGITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MENINGITIS; MONOTHERAPY; NOSE MUCOSA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROID THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VISUAL DISORDER; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 39649124923     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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