Idiopathic hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis: Report of 3 cases

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-201

  Ranasinghe, Moksha G ^a   Zalatimo, Omar ^a   Rizk, Elias ^a   Specht, Charles S ^a   Reiter, G Timothy ^a   Harbaugh, Robert E ^a   Sheehan, Jonas ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Idiopathic hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis; Myelopathy; Radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINECTOMY; MENINGITIS; MENINX DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPINAL IDIOPATHIC HYPERTROPHIC PACHYMENINGITIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; AGED; DURA MATER; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; PREDNISONE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051686518     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.4.SPINE1037     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Aǧildere AM, Tutar NU, Yücel E, Coşkun M, Benli S, Aydin P: Pachymeningitis and optic neuritis in rheumatoid arthritis: MRI findings. Br J Radiol 72:404-407, 1999 (Pubitemid 29188863)
2. Ashkenazi E, Constantini S, Pappo O, Gomori M, Averbuch- Heller L, Umansky F: Hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis: report of two cases and review of the literature. Neurosurgery 28:730-732, 1991
3. Berger JR, Snodgrass S, Glaser J, Post MJ, Norenberg M, Benedetto P: Multifocal fibrosclerosis with hypertrophic intracranial pachymeningitis. Neurology 39:1345-1349, 1989 (Pubitemid 19246809)
4. Botella C, Orozco M, Navarro J, Riesgo P: Idiopathic chronic hypertrophic craniocervical pachymeningitis: case report. Neurosurgery 35:1144-1149, 1994 (Pubitemid 24371204)
5. Charcot JM, Joffroy A: Deux cas d'atrophie musculaire progressive avec lésions de la substance gris et des faisceaux antériolaté raux de la moelle épinière. Arch Physiol Norm Pathol 2:354-367, 1869
6. Deshpande DH, Vidyasagar C: Hypertrophic pachymeningitis dorsalis. Surg Neurol 12:217-220, 1979 (Pubitemid 10222930)
7. Endo H: [Wegener's granulomatosis with peculiar lesions of the dura mater.] Nippon Rinsho 34:1289-1291, 1976 (Jpn)
8. Eto F, Shimada Y, Endo H, Mozai T: [Wegener's granulomatosis with marked pachymeningitis-an autopsy study.] Rinsho Shinkeigaku 16:326-332, 1976 (Jpn)
9. Friedman D, Flanders A, Tartaglino L: Contrast-enhanced MR imaging of idiopathic hypertrophic craniospinal pachymeningitis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 160:900-901, 1993 (Pubitemid 23110014)
10. Friedman DP, Flanders AE: Enhanced MR imaging of hypertrophic pachymeningitis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 169:1425-1428, 1997
11. Fujimoto M, Kira J, Murai H, Yoshimura T, Takizawa K, Goto I: Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis associated with mixed connective tissue disease; a comparison with idiopathic and infectious pachymeningitis. Intern Med 32:510-512, 1993
12. Gutmann L, Hable K: Rheumatoid pachymeningitis. Neurology 13:901-905, 1963
13. Hassin GB: Histogenesis of cerebral hypertrophic pachymeningitis and its relation to syphilis. Am J Syphilis 2:715, 1918
14. Hassin GB, Zeitlin H: Syphilitic cerebral hypertrophic pachymeningitis. Clinicopathologic studies in a case. Arch Neurol Psychiatry 43:362-371, 1940
15. Hatano N, Behari S, Nagatani T, Kimura M, Ooka K, Saito K, et al: Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: clinicoradiological spectrum and therapeutic options. Neurosurgery 45:1336-1344, 1999
16. Hauge T, Magnaes B, Løken AC, de Graaf AS: Treatment of rheumatoid pachymeningitis involving the entire thoracic region. Scand J Rheumatol 7:209-211, 1978 (Pubitemid 9102970)
17. Huang H, Haq N: Spinal leptomeningeal sarcoidosis. Neuroradiology 29:100, 1987 (Pubitemid 17023525)
18. Ito Z, Osawa Y, Matsuyama Y, Aoki T, Harada A, Ishiguro N: Recurrence of hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis. Report of two cases and review of the literature. J Neurosurg Spine 4:509-513, 2006 (Pubitemid 47325438)
19. Joelson E, Ruthrauff B, Ali F, Lindeman N, Sharp FR: Multifocal dural enhancement associated with temporal arteritis. Arch Neurol 57:119-122, 2000 (Pubitemid 30027640)
20. Kadoya C, Soejima T, Yamada H, Yokota A: Pachymeningoencephalitis: case report. Neurosurgery 33:131-134, 1993
21. Kanamori M, Matsui H, Terahata N, Tsuji H: Hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis. A case report. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 22:1787-1790, 1997
22. Kao KP, Huang CI, Shan DE, Ho JT, Chang T, Chu FL: Nonobstructive idiopathic pachymeningitis cervicalis hypertrophica. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 49:1441-1444, 1986
23. Kupersmith MJ, Martin V, Heller G, Shah A, Mitnick HJ: Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis. Neurology 62:686-694, 2004 (Pubitemid 38298941)
24. Lee YC, Chueng YC, Hsu SW, Lui CC: Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: case report with 7 years of imaging follow-up. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 24:119-123, 2003 (Pubitemid 36110113)
25. Levine MR, Kaye L, Mair S, Bates J: Multifocal fibrosclerosis. Report of a case of bilateral idiopathic sclerosing pseudotumor and retroperitoneal fibrosis. Arch Ophthalmol 111:841-843, 1993 (Pubitemid 23170601)
26. Li JY, Lai PH, Lam HC, Lu LY, Cheng HH, Lee JK, et al: HypertrophicHypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis and lymphocytic hypophysitis in Sjögren's syndrome. Neurology 52:420-423, 1999
27. Mamelak AN, Kelly WM, Davis RL, Rosenblum ML: Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis. Report of three cases. J Neurosurg 79:270-276, 1993 (Pubitemid 23215847)
28. Martin N, Masson C, Henin D, Mompoint D, Marsault C, Nahum H: Hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: assessment with CT and MR imaging. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 10: 477-484, 1989 (Pubitemid 19134995)
29. Mikawa Y, Watanabe R, Hino Y, Hirano K: Hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 19:620-625, 1994
30. Naffziger HC, Stern WE: Chronic pachymeningitis; report of a case and review of the literature. Arch Neurol Psychiatry 62:383-411, 1949
31. Nagashima T, Maguchi S, Terayama Y, Horimoto M, Nemoto M, Nunomura M, et al: P-ANCA-positive Wegener's granulomatosis presenting with hypertrophic pachymeningitis and multiple cranial neuropathies: case report and review of literature. Neuropathology 20:23-30, 2000 (Pubitemid 30312573)
32. Nishino H, Rubino FA, Parisi JE: The spectrum of neurologic involvement in Wegener's granulomatosis. Neurology 43:1334-1337, 1993 (Pubitemid 23213805)
33. Nishioka H, Ito H, Haraoka J, Yamada Y, Nojima H: Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis with accumulation of thallium-201 on single-photon emission CT. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 19:450-453, 1998 (Pubitemid 30422747)
34. Nishizaki T, Iwamoto F, Uesugi S, Akimura T, Yamashita K, Ito H: Idiopathic cranial pachymeningoencephalitis focally affecting the parietal dura mater and adjacent brain parenchyma: case report. Neurosurgery 40:840-843, 1997
35. Oonishi T, Ishiko T, Arai M, Kase M, Matsushita M: Pachymeningitis cervicalis hypertrophica. Acta Pathol Jpn 32: 163-171, 1982 (Pubitemid 12057499)
36. Paulson GW, Meagher JN, Burkhart J: Spinal pachymeningitis secondary to mucopolysaccharidosis. Case report. J Neurosurg 41:618-621, 1974
37. Riku S, Kato S: Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis. Neuropathology 23:335-344, 2003 (Pubitemid 38004868)
38. Rosenfeld JV, Kaye AH, Davis S, Gonzales M: Pachymeningitis cervicalis hypertrophica. Case report. J Neurosurg 66: 137-139, 1987 (Pubitemid 17214296)
39. Sharma V, Newton G, Wahal KM: Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis-an uncommon cause of cord compression. Indian J Pathol Microbiol 35:133-136, 1992
40. Sridhar K, Vasudevan MC: Idiopathic chronic hypertrophic pachymeningitis causing thoracic cord compression. Br J Neurosurg 18:515-517, 2004 (Pubitemid 40076200)
41. Uemura K, Matsumura A, Kobayashi E: Idiopathic chronic hypertrophic craniocervical pachymeningitis: case report. Neurosurgery 37:358, 1995
42. Van de Wyngaert FA, Sindic CJ, Rousseau JJ, Fernandes Xavier FG, Brucher JM, Laterre EC: Spinal arachnoiditis due to aspergillus meningitis in a previously healthy patient. J Neurol 233:41-43, 1986 (Pubitemid 16155657)
43. Weinstein GW, Powell SR, Thrush WP: Chiasmal neuropathy secondary to rheumatoid pachymeningitis. Am J Ophthalmol 104:439-440, 1987
44. Yuh WT, Drew JM, Rizzo M, Ryals TJ, Sato Y, Bell WE: Evaluation of pachymeningitis by contrast-enhanced MR imaging in a patient with rheumatoid disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 11:1247-1248, 1990 (Pubitemid 20359049)