Wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation

Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a systemic vasculitis, which can involve any organ system in the body; however, involvement of central nervous system at presentation is very uncommon. Dural involvement in WG has been infrequently reported; however, presentation with subdural hematoma as the in...

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Autores principales: Kalra, Sarathi, Yadav, Anil, Agarwal, Sunil, Kumar, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23724392
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.109430
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author Kalra, Sarathi
Yadav, Anil
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Kumar, Sunil
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description Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a systemic vasculitis, which can involve any organ system in the body; however, involvement of central nervous system at presentation is very uncommon. Dural involvement in WG has been infrequently reported; however, presentation with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation is extremely rare. We present a case of WG presenting as subdural hematoma, which resolved on cytotoxic therapy without surgical evacuation.
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spelling pubmed-36651272013-05-30 Wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation Kalra, Sarathi Yadav, Anil Agarwal, Sunil Kumar, Sunil Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci Case Report Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a systemic vasculitis, which can involve any organ system in the body; however, involvement of central nervous system at presentation is very uncommon. Dural involvement in WG has been infrequently reported; however, presentation with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation is extremely rare. We present a case of WG presenting as subdural hematoma, which resolved on cytotoxic therapy without surgical evacuation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3665127/ /pubmed/23724392 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.109430 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kalra, Sarathi
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Kumar, Sunil
Wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation
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title_full Wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation
title_fullStr Wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation
title_full_unstemmed Wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation
title_short Wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation
title_sort wegener's granulomatosis with subdural hematoma as the initial manifestation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23724392
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.109430
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