Meningeal carcinomatosis and spinal cord infiltration caused by a locally invasive pulmonary adenocarcinoma in a cat [PDF]
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2017 Case summary A 12-year-old domestic shorthair cat was presented with acute non-painful hindlimb proprioceptive ataxia localising to T3–L3 spinal cord segments. MRI revealed paravertebral muscular hyperintensity on T2-weighted images at the level of T7–T8
Christoforos Posporis +5 more
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Meningeal carcinomatosis secondary to neurenteric cysts with malignant transformation: a case report [PDF]
BMC Neurology, 2022 Background Meningeal carcinomatosis is mainly associated with breast cancer, lung cancer, and melanoma. However, meningeal carcinomatosis secondary to a neurenteric cyst with malignant features is extremely rare. Case presentation We report the case of a
Min Chu +6 more
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A Case of Meningeal Carcinomatosis Due to Signet-Ring Cell Carcinoma That Developed Severe Visual Impairment with Papillary Swelling [PDF]
International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2020 Shimpei Sugaoka,1 Takayuki Kanda,1 Masataka Ito,2 Masaru Takeuchi1 1Department of Ophthalmology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa City, Saitama 359-8513, Japan; 2Department of Developmental Anatomy, National Defense Medical College ...
Sugaoka S, Kanda T, Ito M, Takeuchi M
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The diagnostic significance of cerebrospinal fluid cytology and circulating tumor DNA in meningeal carcinomatosis [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 ObjectiveThe objective of this research is to investigate the clinical application value of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) meningeal metastasis-meningeal carcinomatosis (MC), and to ...
Wei-Ying Di +12 more
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Role of intrathecal chemotherapy in the management of meningeal carcinomatosis in patients with breast cancer [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2023 Objective To evaluate whether intrathecal chemotherapy improves clinical outcomes in patients with meningeal carcinomatosis. Methods This retrospective cohort study included consecutive patients with breast cancer diagnosed with meningeal carcinomatosis.
Renata Tortato Meneguetti +2 more
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Meningeal carcinomatosis: three case-reports [PDF]
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2018 Background Meningeal carcinomatosis (MC) is characterized by diffuse infiltration of tumor cells in meninges. There is no tumor mass in the brain and parenchyma of the spinal cord. MC is divided into primary and metastatic types. MC cases were previously
Guangyong Chen +6 more
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Repotrectinib’s Clinical Benefit and Its Brain Penetration in a Patient with Meningeal Carcinomatosis from G2032R-Mutated ROS-1 Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [PDF]
Oncology and Therapy, 2023 In this work, we report on a clinically significant response of meningeal carcinomatosis to repotrectinib in a woman with a heavily pretreated ROS1-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that harbored the concomitant solvent front G2032R mutation.
Giulio Metro +12 more
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Metastatic meningeal carcinomatosis from lung cancer: Report of a rare case [PDF]
Thoracic Cancer, 2020 Meningeal carcinomatosis (MC) refers to the diffuse or multifocal spread or infiltration of malignant tumors in the pia mater. It is a special distribution type of metastatic tumors in the central nervous system and one of the important reasons of death ...
Hui Liu +3 more
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Meningeal carcinomatosis presenting with leukoencephalopathy-like imaging findings [PDF]
eNeurologicalSci, 2019 Meningeal carcinomatosis is a unique and rare form of metastasis observed in patients with malignant tumours. Diagnosis is simple when the primary lesion of the malignant tumour is clear, and when multiple miliary lesions are confirmed via cranial ...
Hiroshi Tsuji +12 more
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Characteristics of Patients with Meningeal Carcinomatosis Combined with Myelopathy [PDF]
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2022 Lidong Jiao,1 Min Wei,1 Yongjuan Fu2 1Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Pathology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, People’s ...
Jiao L, Wei M, Fu Y
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