Infiltration of the Leptomeninges by Systemic Cancer: A Clinical and Pathologic Study

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1974, Pages 122-137

  Olson, Madelyn E ^a   Chernik, Norman L ^a   Posner, Jerome B ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; METHOTREXATE;

AUTOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; LEPTOMENINX; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; MENINX; MENINX METASTASIS; METASTASIS; PANCREAS CANCER; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CRANIAL NERVES; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; MENINGES; MENTAL DISORDERS; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM SEEDING; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0015979018     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1974.00490320010002     Document Type: Article

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