title: Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: a case report.
abstract: Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is a rare fibrosing inflammatory process involving dura mater and tentorium. In this report we are presenting contrast enhanced MRI findings of an unusual case of pachymeningitis which presented with a periorbital mass due to dural sinuses occlusion and retrograde filling of periorbital veins through superior sagittal sinus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA-Olive View Medical Center, Sylmar 91342.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kioumehr
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Rooholamini
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yaghmai
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D003392:Cranial Sinuses / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D009915:Orbit / Q000098:blood supply*; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery