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Adenocarcinoma lung presenting with meningeal carcinomatosis

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5 November 2021
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Pneumology - Case Reports
DOI
10.4081/monaldi.2021.1427

Abstract

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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