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Pachymeningitis in mixed connective tissue disease
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Pachymeningitis is a rare illness which can be shown by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to be a thickening of the intracranial dura mater, when associated with an infectious, malignant, or rheumatic systematic disease.1–,6 “Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis” is also noticeable, and is based on a process of chronic inflammation whose cause is unclear.4 Typical symptoms are chronic headaches, facial pain, cerebella ataxia, …