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Focal idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis: a case with two separate sites involved at a 5-year interval

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Marleen Praet, MD, PhD (Department of Anatomopathology, UZ Gent, Belgium) and Isabelle Salmon, MD, PhD (Department of Anatomopathology, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium) for having accepted to perform IgG4 immunological staining in their laboratories; we also like to thank Olivier Beuscart for his technical assistance in preparation of the figures.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Régional de Namur, 185, Avenue Albert Ier, 5000, Namur, Belgium

    Roger Denays & Pierre Hella

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Centre Hospitalier Régional de Namur, Namur, Belgium

    Germain Milbouw

  3. Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Régional de Namur, Namur, Belgium

    Alexandre Mosseray

  4. Department of Anatomopathology (Neuropathology), Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium

    Alex Michotte

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Denays, R., Milbouw, G., Mosseray, A. et al. Focal idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis: a case with two separate sites involved at a 5-year interval. Acta Neurol Belg 113, 95–98 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-012-0169-z

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