Cranial pachymeningitis: A rare neurological syndrome with heterogeneous aetiology

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 294-298

  Brüggemann, Norbert ^a   Gottschalk, Stefan ^a   Holl Ulrich, Konstanze ^a   Stewen, Jan ^b   Heide, Wolfgang ^b   Seidel, Gunter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b ALLGEMEINES KRANKENHAUS CELLE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACHYMENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEIZURE; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGES; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77649146195     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.160457     Document Type: Article

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