title: Carcinomatous meningitis complicating cervical cancer: a clinicopathologic study and literature review.
abstract: Patients with gynecologic malignancies may develop metastases throughout the neuraxis. Cervix-related carcinomatous meningitis is a distinctly unusual clinical event with only two previous cases reported in the English medical literature. We review clinical, radiographic, and pathologic findings of a woman with advanced adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix, whose course was complicated by leptomeningeal metastases. Carcinomatous meningitis occurs in the setting of rapidly advancing systemic disease and represents a terminal complication of cervical cancer.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hematology/Oncology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98111, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Aboulafia
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Crane
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Yon
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Rudolph
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D000328:Adult; D003391:Cranial Nerves / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D008581:Meningitis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*