Leptomeningeal metastasis from malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Leptomeningeal metastasis from malignant mesothelioma is very rare; to our knowledge, only one imaging report exists in the literature. We present the case of widespread leptomeningeal lesions secondary to a malignant mesothelioma in a 61-year-old woman.
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Institute of Oncology, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia and Montenegro.
Boris D
BD
Petrovic
Dusko B
DB
Kozic
Robert R
RR
Semnic
Mladen
M
Prvulovic
Dragana
D
Djilas-Ivanovic
R Nuri
RN
Sener
Istvan
I
Klem
D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008578:Meninges / Q000473:pathology; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000473:pathology; D010994:Pleura / Q000473:pathology; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology