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Case Reports
. 1975 Dec;38(12):1170-6.
doi: 10.1136/jnnp.38.12.1170.

Hypertrophic granulomatous cranial pachymeningitis causing progressive blindness in a chronic dialysis patient

E R Feringa, L Weatherbee
Case Reports

Hypertrophic granulomatous cranial pachymeningitis causing progressive blindness in a chronic dialysis patient

E R Feringa et al. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1975 Dec.

Abstract

A patient on chronic haemodialysis because of renal failure developed progressive visual field loss and eventual blindness. A postmortem examination indicated that the blindness was caused by granulomatous thickening of the pachymeninges which constricted the optic nerves as they passed through the optic foramina. Exhaustive bacteriological and histopathological studies failed to identify a specific cause for this hypertrophic cranial pachymeningitis.

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