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- Title
Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis presenting with headache.
- Authors
Im S; Cho K; Seo HS; Choi J
- Abstract
Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis is a rare inflammatory disease, usually involving the dura mater of skull base, tentorium, and falx. Chronic headache is the most common clinical manifestations. We report a case of idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis that was, initially, misdiagnosed as acute subdural hematoma along the tentorium cerebelli and posterior falx on the brain precontrast CT scan of a patient with severe headache. Correct diagnosis of pachymeningitis was made only after brain magnetic resonance imaging and meningeal biopsy.
- Publication
Headache: The Journal of Head & Face Pain, 2008, Vol 48, Issue 8, p1232
- ISSN
0017-8748
- Publication type
Journal Article