title: Diffuse primary leptomeningeal gliomatosis.
abstract: A 38 year old patient developed multiple cranial nerve palsy, seizures and progressive alteration in consciousness. CSF examination revealed tumor cells and a tentative diagnosis of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis from an unknown primary tumor was made. Treatment with intrathecal methotrexate and cranial radiation therapy was started without effect. At autopsy widespread leptomeningeal gliomatosis originating from a previously unknown astrocytoma of the hippocampus was found.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hôpital de la Salpétrière, Paris, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Davila
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duyckaerts
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lazareth
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poisson
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Delattre
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016371:Cranial Irradiation; D006624:Hippocampus; D006801:Humans; D007278:Injections, Spinal; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D008727:Methotrexate / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary
chemical_list: D008727:Methotrexate