Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis and cranial nerve palsy as presenting symptoms of a clinically inapparent gallbladder carcinoma

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 195, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 495-499

  Gaumann, Andreas ^a   Marx, Jürgen ^a   Bohl, Jürgen ^a   Kommoss, Friedrich ^a   Köhler, Heinz ^a   Tews, Dominique S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Cranial nerve palsy; E cadherin; Gallbladder; Meningeal carcinomatosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LUNG CARCINOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCULT CANCER; PARESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; TONGUE;

EID: 0032814291     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0344-0338(99)80053-3     Document Type: Article

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