Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is a very unusual disease, the main characteristic of which is thickening of the dura mater. We describe a patient who started this illness showing chronic headache and pauciimmune necrotizing extracapillary perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (P-ANCA) associated glomerulonephritis. The diagnosis was made by brain magnetic resonance image. She received immunosuppressant therapy with prednisonel and cyclophosphamide with clinical improvement.
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Journal: Medicina
VOLUME: 67
Page Numbers: 151-5
Journal Abbreviation: Medicina (B Aires)
ISSN: 0025-7680
DAY: 27
MONTH: 06
YEAR: 2007
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