Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis

Meningeal carcinomatosis is a diffuse infiltration of leptomeninges and sub arachnoid space by malignant cells metastasizing from systemic cancer. Primary bronchogenic carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis is a very rare occurrence in clinical practice, often occurring during the treatmen...

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Autores principales: Paramez, A. R., Dixit, Ramakant, Gupta, Neeraj, Gupta, Rakesh, Arya, Manoj
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20931036
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68324
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author Paramez, A. R.
Dixit, Ramakant
Gupta, Neeraj
Gupta, Rakesh
Arya, Manoj
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Dixit, Ramakant
Gupta, Neeraj
Gupta, Rakesh
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description Meningeal carcinomatosis is a diffuse infiltration of leptomeninges and sub arachnoid space by malignant cells metastasizing from systemic cancer. Primary bronchogenic carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis is a very rare occurrence in clinical practice, often occurring during the treatment course of the underlying malignancy. We present this rare presentation in a young non-smoker male.
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spelling pubmed-29467192010-10-07 Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis Paramez, A. R. Dixit, Ramakant Gupta, Neeraj Gupta, Rakesh Arya, Manoj Lung India Case Report Meningeal carcinomatosis is a diffuse infiltration of leptomeninges and sub arachnoid space by malignant cells metastasizing from systemic cancer. Primary bronchogenic carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis is a very rare occurrence in clinical practice, often occurring during the treatment course of the underlying malignancy. We present this rare presentation in a young non-smoker male. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2946719/ /pubmed/20931036 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68324 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Paramez, A. R.
Dixit, Ramakant
Gupta, Neeraj
Gupta, Rakesh
Arya, Manoj
Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis
title Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis
title_full Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis
title_fullStr Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis
title_full_unstemmed Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis
title_short Non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis
title_sort non-small cell lung carcinoma presenting as carcinomatous meningitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20931036
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.68324
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