PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lee, Yu Chang
AU  - Chueng, Yao Chung
AU  - Hsu, Shin Wei
AU  - Lui, Chun Chung
TI  - Idiopathic Hypertrophic Cranial Pachymeningitis: Case Report with 7 Years of Imaging Follow-up
DP  - 2003 Jan 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 119--123
VI  - 24
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/24/1/119.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/24/1/119.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2003 Jan 01; 24
AB  - Summary: Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis is a rare inflammatory disease with diffused involvement of the dura. Often, the definite diagnosis is made immediately with biopsy and the involved dura is removed surgically. Consequently, extensive preoperative imaging studies usually are not available. We reviewed a case of idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis and collectively summarized the interesting features from the 7 years preceding surgical treatment. These chronologic imaging findings with progressive intracranial involvement included dural thickening, dural mass, sinus thrombosis, and venous congestion constituted comprehensive pictures of idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis. The thickened dura may also at times mimic dural masses, such as en plaque meningioma.