Triphasic sharp waves in a patient with carcinomatous meningitis.
Subacute encephalopathy with an electroencephalographic (EEG) pattern of generalized periodic triphasic sharp waves occurred in an 80-year-old woman with autopsy proven carcinomatous meningitis. Meningeal carcinomatosis should be included within the differential (clinical) diagnosis of such an EEG pattern.
Miller
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Department of Neurology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown 26506.
Brick
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J
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*