Idiopathic Hypertrophic Cranial Pachymeningitis Associated With Total Occlusion of the Dural Sinuses-Case Report-
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Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis.
Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis is a rare form of fibrosing chronic inflammatory process of unknown etiology, which causes thickening of the intracranial dura mater. We present four patients with hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis who presented with chronic headache and cranial nerve palsies. The diagnosis of idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis was based on neuroim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.650