Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma

Carcinomatous meningitis is a rare manifestation of malignancy. It is increasingly being recognized in lung carcinoma, breast carcinoma, melanomas, gastrointestinal malignancies, lymphomas, and leukemia and it is almost never seen in gallbladder malignancies. We present a case whose primary presenta...

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Autores principales: Jose, Nisha, Perla, Harsha Teja, Iyadurai, Ramya, Chacko, Geeta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469324
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.203571
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author Jose, Nisha
Perla, Harsha Teja
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description Carcinomatous meningitis is a rare manifestation of malignancy. It is increasingly being recognized in lung carcinoma, breast carcinoma, melanomas, gastrointestinal malignancies, lymphomas, and leukemia and it is almost never seen in gallbladder malignancies. We present a case whose primary presentation was as a carcinomatous meningitis that was subsequently found to be secondary to a gallbladder primary.
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spelling pubmed-53980202017-05-03 Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma Jose, Nisha Perla, Harsha Teja Iyadurai, Ramya Chacko, Geeta J Cytol Case Report Carcinomatous meningitis is a rare manifestation of malignancy. It is increasingly being recognized in lung carcinoma, breast carcinoma, melanomas, gastrointestinal malignancies, lymphomas, and leukemia and it is almost never seen in gallbladder malignancies. We present a case whose primary presentation was as a carcinomatous meningitis that was subsequently found to be secondary to a gallbladder primary. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5398020/ /pubmed/28469324 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.203571 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma
title Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma
title_full Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma
title_fullStr Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma
title_short Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma
title_sort leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28469324
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.203571
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