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Imaging of Gastric Carcinomatosis [PDF]
Diagnosing the absence or presence of peritoneal carcinomatosis in patients with gastric cancer, including its extent and distribution, is an essential step in patients’ therapeutic management. Such diagnosis still remains a radiological challenge.
Saiz Martínez, R. +2 more
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Meningeal carcinomatosis in a dog [PDF]
MENINGEAL carcinomatosis or carcinomatous meningitis is an uncommon pathological condition defined as a difuse leptomeningeal infiltration by extraneural solid tumour cells that have metastasised to the central nervous system (Grossman and Moynihan 1991).
Pumarola i Batlle, Martí +1 more
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Peritoneal carcinomatosis [PDF]
Several gastrointestinal and gynecological malignancies have the potential to disseminate and grow in the peritoneal cavity. The occurrence of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) has been shown to significantly decrease overall survival in patients with liver and/or extraperitoneal metastases from gastrointestinal cancer.
Coccolini F +10 more
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Meningeal carcinomatosis and blindness [PDF]
The clinical syndrome of meningeal carcinomatosis includes headache, dementia, radiculopathy, and cranial nerve palsies. Blindness may be the first, or most prominent, symptom. When blindness occurs in adult life, meningeal carcinomatosis should be included in the differential diagnosis, even in the absence of other symptoms and in the absence of known
P H, Altrocchi, P B, Eckman
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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis occurs in approximately 5% of patients with cancer. This disorder is being diagnosed with increasing frequency as patients live longer and as neuro-imaging studies improve. The most common cancers to involve the leptomeninges are breast cancer, lung cancer, and melanomas.
S A, Grossman, M J, Krabak
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MENINGEAL CARCINOMATOSIS [PDF]
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Meningeal carcinomatosis as the first manifestation of malignant carcinomatosis
Abstract Meningeal carcinomatosis (MC) is a malignant infiltration of the leptomeninges and subarachnoid space and can be a devastating complication of a systemic malignancy. Although often found in patients with known metastatic malignancies, MC can also be the initial manifestation of an underlying malignancy ...
Z, Gdovinova +4 more
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Hypoglycorrhachia in meningeal carcinomatosis [PDF]
A case of malignant melanoma with diffuse meningeal carcinomatosis and hypoglycorrhachia is presented. The combination of low spinal fluid glucose and bizarre or unexplained neurologic signs should bring to mind meningeal carcinomatosis. In the presence of known malignant disease and fever hypoglycorrhachia should stimulate a diligent search of the ...
V T, De Vita, G P, Canellos
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Pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis [PDF]
A 59-year-old woman presented to our clinic with a dry cough and dull pain over her entire back that had persisted for more than 1 week. The patient had no sputum production, fever, sore throat or prior history of tuberculosis, and she had not travelled recently. On examination, she was tachypnoeic and hypoxaemic, with dry crackles in both lower lungs.
W-R, Lin, R-S, Lai
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