Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis mimicking a chronic inflammatory meningitis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 127-131

  Ko, Melissa W ^a   Turkeltaub, Peter E ^b   Lee, Edward B ^b   Gonatas, Nicholas K ^b   Volpe, Nicholas J ^b   Moster, Mark L ^c   Galetta, Steven L ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic meningitis; Meningeal biopsy; Optic neuropathy; Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis; Raised intracranial pressure

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; AZTREONAM; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETIRACETAM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASTROCYTOMA; AUTOPSY; BACKACHE; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW DISEASE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; GLIA CELL; GLIOSIS; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGEAL BIOPSY; MENINGITIS; MENINX; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY DIFFUSE LEPTOMENINGEAL GLIOMATOSIS; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RARE DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

BIOPSY; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGITIS; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58749116106     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.11.026     Document Type: Article

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