sclerosing pachymeningitis

Etiology

 IgG4-associated sclerosing pachymeningitis
 syphilis
 rheumatoid pachymeningitis (18807253, 312046)
 intravenous immunoglobulin-associated cranial pachymeningitis (16882281)
 anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (p-ANCA) and diabetes insipidus (11903097)

References

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 IgG4-related sclerosing pachymeningitis: a previously unrecognized form of central nervous system involvement in IgG4-related sclerosing disease. Chan SK, Cheuk W, Chan KT, Chan JK. Am J Surg Pathol. 2009 Aug;33(8):1249-52. PMID: 19561447

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 Hassin G. Histogenesis of cerebral hypertrophic pachymeningitis. Am J Syphilis. 1918;2:715.

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