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Adenocarcinoma lung presenting with meningeal carcinomatosis

Author(s) -

Ramakant Dixit,

Mukesh Goyal,

Paras Nowal,

Varna Indushekhar

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

monaldi archives for chest disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.196

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 2465-101X

pISSN - 1122-0643

DOI - 10.4081/monaldi.2021.1427

Subject(s) - meningeal carcinomatosis , medicine , adenocarcinoma , parenchyma , lung , infiltration (hvac) , cerebrospinal fluid , pathology , carcinosis , bronchogenic carcinoma , metastasis , carcinoma , peritoneal carcinomatosis , cancer , colorectal cancer , thermodynamics , physics

Meningeal infiltration by malignant metastasis process without brain parenchymal involvement is very unusual event in patients with bronchogenic carcinoma. This manuscript describes a case of adenocarcinoma right lung in a 48-year old male having persistent headache. The cerebrospinal fluid cytology revealed the presence of metastatic deposits of adenocarcinoma lung that confirmed the diagnosis of meningeal carcinomatosis.

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