title: Meningeal involvement as the initial symptom of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
abstract: A patient is presented with cranial nerve dysfunction which was attributed to a meningeal involvement of chronic lymphocytic leukemia of the B cell type. Cytology and lymphocyte count in the spinal fluid were normal. The diagnosis was made on the basis of cell marker studies by immunocytochemistry of the cerebrospinal fluid cells.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001402:B-Lymphocytes; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000032:analysis / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009325:Nausea / Q000503:physiopathology; D014717:Vertigo / Q000503:physiopathology