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Rituximab Treatment for Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Hypertrophic pachymeningitis (HP) is a rare disease caused by autoimmunity in the meninx that causes various neurologic symptoms, including headache, seizures, weakness, paresthesia, and cranial nerve palsies. Although the first-line therapy for HP is steroids, many HP cases...

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Autores principales: Jang, Yoonhyuk, Lee, Soon-Tae, Jung, Keun-Hwa, Chu, Kon, Lee, Sang Kun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Neurological Association 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5392457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28271643
http://dx.doi.org/10.3988/jcn.2017.13.2.155