Neuro-Behçet’s Disease Presenting as Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis
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Neuro-Behçet's Disease Presenting as Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis
A 25-year-old man presented with blurred vision and chronic headache. His brain MRI revealed bilateral frontal pachymeningeal enhancement with leptomeningeal enhancement. The patient had experienced recurrent oral ulcer and had anterior uveitis and papulopustules skin lesion. We diagnosed him with hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP) associated with neuro-Behçet's disease (NBD). There have been fe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Experimental Neurobiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1226-2560,2093-8144
DOI: 10.5607/en.2015.24.3.252