| Literature DB >> 17143671 |
Mitsuteru Akahoshi1, Goichi Yoshimoto, Hitoshi Nakashima, Katsuhisa Miyake, Yasushi Inoue, Yosuke Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsukamoto, Takahiko Horiuchi, Takeshi Otsuka, Mine Harada.
Abstract
We describe a case of hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis (HCP) associated with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) in a 60-year-old man presenting with chronic headache and multiple cranial nerve neuropathies. A test for antibodies to the neutrophil cytoplasmic protein myeloperoxidase (MPO-ANCA) was positive in this case. We review the literature on perinuclear (p)-ANCA-related HCP, including our case. This case indicates the link between MPO-ANCA-positive WG and HCP.Entities:
Year: 2004 PMID: 17143671 DOI: 10.1007/s10165-004-0288-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mod Rheumatol ISSN: 1439-7595 Impact factor: 3.023