Primary leptomeningeal melanocytosis in a 10-year-old girl: A challenging diagnosis with a poor prognosis

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1444-1448

  Brunsvig, Kirsten L ^a   Zenobi, Marie ^a   Rilliet, Benedict ^b   Hassani, Yassine El ^b   Haller, Raoul De ^b   Ansari, Marc ^b   Lobrinus, Johannes A ^b   Hanquinet, Sylviane ^b   Fluss, Joel ^c  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c Children's Hospital of Geneva   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

hemiplegic migraine; hydrocephalus; melanomatosis; meningeal melanocytosis; neurocutaneous melanosis

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; MELAN A; OLIGOCLONAL BAND; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIC MIGRAINE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSIS; MENINGEAL BIOPSY; MONOCYTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VISUAL ACUITY; VOMITING;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MELANOCYTES; MENINGES; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED;

EID: 80455177319     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073811409749     Document Type: Article

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