Primary diffuse multinodular leptomeningeal gliomatosis: Case report and review of the literature

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 273-282

  Debono, Bertrand ^a   Derrey, Stéphane ^a   Rabehenoina, Charles ^a   Proust, François ^a   Freger, Pierre ^a   Laquerrière, Annie ^a  

^a HÔPITAL CHARLES NICOLLE   (France)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Literature review; Primary diffuse meningeal gliomatosis; Prognosis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHOTREXATE; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOPSY; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINX DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY DIFFUSE MULTINODULAR LEPTOMENINGEAL GLIOMATOSIS; PROGNOSIS; PUBLISHING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL ROOT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VASCULITIS;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 32644476466     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.06.038     Document Type: Article

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