Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis manifested by transient ischemic attack

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Fan, Yuhua ^a   Liao, Songjie ^a   Yu, Jian ^a   Ling, Li ^a   Hou, Qinghua ^a   Xing, Shihui ^a   Zeng, Jinsheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Dura; Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DURA MATER; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HERB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC HYPERTROPHIC CRANIAL PACHYMENINGITIS; MALE; MENINGEAL BIOPSY; MENINGITIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; DURA MATER; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; PARESIS; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75149175744     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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