Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis: Clinical, laboratory and neuroradiologic features in China

Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by marked fibrous thickening of the cerebral and/or spinal dura mater. Clinical, laboratory, neuroradiologic and therapeutic data from 12 patients with idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis (IHP) from our department were retrospectively studied. There were four men and eight women with a mean age of 49 ± 15.3 years, and more than half of the patients (58%) were...