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DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1724087
Idiopathic Hypertrophic Spinal Pachymeningitis: A Case Report
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Abstract
Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis is rare cause of neurological symptoms with myelopathy due to spinal cord compression. We report a case of pachymeningitis, which was manifested primarily by tetraparesis after low-energy trauma and recurrence the myelopathy symptoms after 5 years of surgery. The patient, a 19-year-old woman, was subjected to extensive investigation without evidence of any underlying disease. A meningeal biopsy was performed and showed an unspecific inflammatory process with extensive fibrosis of the dura mater. These findings, associated with the exclusion of other causes, suggest idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis.
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Publication History
Received: 12 October 2020
Accepted: 01 December 2020
Article published online:
13 August 2021
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