Affiliations
- 1 MD, MMed, MRCP Lecturer and Physician. Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Jalan Yaacob Latif Bandar Tun Razak 56000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- 2 MMed, MD, FRCP Senior Consultant Neurologist. Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Jalan Yaacob Latif Bandar Tun Razak 56000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- 3 MBBS, MD, DMRD. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 4 MBBS, Registrar, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PMID: 15221051
Abstract
Symptomatic rheumatoid pachymeningitis is a rare extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical symptoms are non-specific and diagnosis is frequently made by exclusion. We present a 61-year-old woman with a 9-year history of rheumatoid arthritis presenting with deafness and progressive disability over a two month duration. She was diagnosed as having rheumatoid pachymeningitis based on the cerebral magnetic resonance imaging findings.
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