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A case of metastatic leptomeningeal carcinomatosis from early gastric carcinoma [PDF]
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2012 Metastatic leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is estimated to occur in 3% to 8% of solid carcinomas. The most common causes of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis are breast cancer, lung cancer and malignant melanoma.
Park Kwang-Kuk +4 more
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Case Reports in Oncology, 2020 Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is an extremely rare, but devastating complication in pancreatic cancer patients with a poor prognosis despite multimodal treatment.
Garry Ceccon +6 more
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Neuroborreliosis Mimicking Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis in a Patient With Breast Cancer
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2014 Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is a serious complication of advanced cancer. Various clinical manifestations may present, such as headache, nausea, seizures, cranial neuropathies.
Stefanie Fischer MD +4 more
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Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis: Easy to Miss
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2017 Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is a devastating condition with very poor prognosis. With advances in cancer treatment leading to improved survival in solid tumours, the incidence of ante-mortem diagnosis of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is likely to rise. Without a high index of suspicion and appropriate imaging the diagnosis can be missed.
A, Sekhar, B, Corbo, K, Das, S, Biswas
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Radiology Case Reports, 2017 Ovarian cancer, a leading cause of death in women, typically spreads locally and rarely metastasizes to the brain or seeds the leptomeninges. We present a case of a 62-year-old woman with a history of treated ovarian cell carcinoma who developed ...
Martin Krupa, MD, Kathy Byun, MD
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Case Reports in Oncology, 2016 Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis occurred in an old female patient who was on a standard dose of afatinib for the treatment of her non-small cell lung cancer harboring an epidermal growth factor receptor gene mutation sensitive to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Frank S. Fan
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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in small cell carcinoma of the prostate
IJU Case Reports, 2022 Introduction Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in small cell carcinoma of the prostate is rare. Case presentation A 69‐year‐old man visited our hospital due to dysuria and edema.
Kyotaro Fukuta +9 more
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Frontiers in OncologyBackgroundSinonasal NUT carcinoma is a rare and highly aggressive malignancy, frequently diagnosed at advanced stages with poor prognosis. Intracranial spread is uncommon and, to our knowledge, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis has not been previously ...
Francisco Manuel Rodríguez-Santiago +7 more
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Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis Secondary to Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2002 BACKGROUND: Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LC) is a rare metastatic complication of solid tumours. It has been mainly described in association with breast cancer, lung cancer and melanoma.
Ayman A Abdo +2 more
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Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, 2020 We present a rare case of recurrent carcinoma of gallbladder with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology showed atypical cells, which were suspicious for malignancy on initial reporting. Diagnosis of malignancy and primary from
Navaneeth Reddy Hasthavaram +9 more
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