Hypertrophic pachymeningitis associated with autoimmune pancreatitis examined for IgG4 related disease: A case report

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 763-768

  Kato, Koichi ^a   Tamano, Yoshinori ^b   Namioka, Ai ^a   Nakagawa, Masanori ^a   Kadoyama, Shigeru ^a   Ujiie, Hiroshi ^a   Nomura, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOKYO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Koshigaya Neurosurgery and Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Corticosteroid; Hypertrophic pachymeningitis; IgG4; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACIAL NUMBNESS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC PACHYMENINGITIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 80052053390     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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