Misleading Rare Case of Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis

Table 1

Summary of case reports on noncommunicating hydrocephalus with IHP.

First author, year (references)	Age (years)/Sex	Symptoms/Signs	Treatment	Outcome	Postoperative treatment
Aburahma et al., 2009 [12]	3.5/Male	Irritability, vomiting, neck stiffness, headache, visual decline	Corticosteroid, cyclophosphamide, ventriculoperitoneal shunt	Poor at 1-year follow-up	Intrathecal cytarabine
Huang et al. 2017 [13]	60/Female	Headache, multiple cranial nerve palsies, gait instability, dizziness	Suboccipital craniectomy, C1 laminectomy	Gradual improvement at 1-month follow-up; good at 1-year follow-up	Corticosteroid
Our case	4/Female	Headache, aphasia, facial and eft upper limb paresthesia	Craniectomy	Gradual improvement at 1-month follow-up; very good at 3-month follow-up	Corticosteroid