Open AccessAdenocarcinoma lung presenting with meningeal carcinomatosis
Author(s) -
Ramakant Dixit,
Megha Goyal,
Paras Nowal,
Varna Indushekhar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
monaldi archives for chest disease. pulmonary series/monaldi archives for chest disease/monaldi archives for chest disease. cardiac series
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.