A case of subacute hypertrophic pachymeningitis caused by <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> infection presenting with subdural hygroma
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Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis presenting with occipital neuralgia.
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عنوان ژورنال: Rinsho Shinkeigaku
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0009-918X,1882-0654
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.60.cn-001418