Case Report
Misleading Rare Case of Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis
Table 1
Summary of case reports on noncommunicating hydrocephalus with IHP.
| First author, year (references) | Age (years)/Sex | Symptoms/Signs | Treatment | Outcome | Postoperative treatment |
| Aburahma et al., 2009 [12] | 3.5/Male | Irritability, vomiting, neck stiffness, headache, visual decline | Corticosteroid, cyclophosphamide, ventriculoperitoneal shunt | Poor at 1-year follow-up | Intrathecal cytarabine | Huang et al. 2017 [13] | 60/Female | Headache, multiple cranial nerve palsies, gait instability, dizziness | Suboccipital craniectomy, C1 laminectomy | Gradual improvement at 1-month follow-up; good at 1-year follow-up | Corticosteroid | Our case | 4/Female | Headache, aphasia, facial and eft upper limb paresthesia | Craniectomy | Gradual improvement at 1-month follow-up; very good at 3-month follow-up | Corticosteroid |
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