Meningeal carcinomatosis diagnosed during stroke evaluation in the emergency department

A 70-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of intermittent dysphasia and right facial droop. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were obtained, and the patient was found to have meningeal carcinomatosis, also known as leptomeningeal meta...

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Autores principales: Cooney, Derek R, Cooney, Norma L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21827700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-52
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description A 70-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of intermittent dysphasia and right facial droop. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were obtained, and the patient was found to have meningeal carcinomatosis, also known as leptomeningeal metastases. Meningeal carcinomatosis is a rare metastatic complication of some solid tumors and hematopoietic neoplasms, and has a median survival rate of 2.4 months. The role of the emergency physician is to appropriately diagnose this condition, treat emergent side effects, provide symptomatic relief, and ensure multi-disciplinary management.
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spelling pubmed-31997592011-10-24 Meningeal carcinomatosis diagnosed during stroke evaluation in the emergency department Cooney, Derek R Cooney, Norma L Int J Emerg Med Case Report A 70-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of intermittent dysphasia and right facial droop. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were obtained, and the patient was found to have meningeal carcinomatosis, also known as leptomeningeal metastases. Meningeal carcinomatosis is a rare metastatic complication of some solid tumors and hematopoietic neoplasms, and has a median survival rate of 2.4 months. The role of the emergency physician is to appropriately diagnose this condition, treat emergent side effects, provide symptomatic relief, and ensure multi-disciplinary management. Springer 2011-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3199759/ /pubmed/21827700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-52 Text en Copyright ©2011 Cooney and Cooney; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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