Hypertrophic pachymeningitis: clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on hypertrophic pachymeningitis: clinical features: Headache This is usually a chronic daily headache It most frequently manifests as chronic migraine It may mimic hemicrania continua: case report Other clinical features Complications Differential diagnosis of…

Headache

  • This is usually a chronic daily headache
  • It most frequently manifests as chronic migraine
  • It may mimic hemicrania continua: case report

Other clinical features

Complications

Differential diagnosis of thick enhancing meninges

References

  1. Wang YJ, Fuh JL, Lirng JF, Lu SR, Wang SJ. Headache profile in patients with idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis. Headache 2004; 44:916-923.
  2. Russo A, Silvestro M, Cirillo M, Tessitore A, Tedeschi G. Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis mimicking hemicrania continua: an unusual clinical case. Cephalalgia 2017; 333102417708773 (Epub ahead of print).
  3. Khalil M, Ebner F, Fazekas F, Enzinger C. Neurological picture. Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: a rare but treatable cause of headache and facial pain. JNNP 2013; 84:354-355.
  4. Kupersmith, MJ, Martin V, Heller G, Shah A, Mitnick HJ. Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis. Neurology 2004; 62:686-694.
  5. Huang Y, Chen J, Gui L. A case of idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis presenting with chronic headache and multiple cranial nerve palsies: a case report. Medicine (Baltimore) 2017; 96:e7549.
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