Spinal Cord Compression Due to Hypertrophic Dorsal Pachymeningitis in a Patient with ANCA + Vasculitis

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Jose Pablo Martinez Barbero M. Revelles-Paniza P. Perez-Naranjo

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Jose Pablo Martinez Barbero
Neuroimaging Section, Radiology Service, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain

A B S T R A C T

Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is an infrequent cause of spinal cord compression, secondary to an intracanal and extramedullary inflammatory infiltrate in patients with Wegener’s disease, and it produces canal stenosis and spinal cord compression. We present the case of a patient with this rare entity, providing explanatory images, who was treated with corticosteroids with partial remission of the lesions.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Sat 19, Jun 2021
Accepted: Thu 19, Aug 2021
Published: Thu 02, Sep 2021

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© 2023 Jose Pablo Martinez Barbero. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JBN.2021.01.01