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Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is a rare fibrosing inflamatory process involving dura mater and tentorium. In this report we are presenting contrast enhanced MRI findings of an unusual case of pachymeningitis which presented with a periorbital mass due to dural sinuses occlusion and retrograde filling of periorbital veins through superior sagittal sinus.
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Kioumehr, F., Au, A., Rooholamini, S.A. et al. Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis: a case report. Neuroradiology 36, 292–294 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00593263
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