title: Carcinomatous meningitis during systematic chemotherapy in a patient with advanced small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterine cervix.
abstract: Carcinoma meningitis with uterine cervical cancer is an extremely rare event. We present the clinicopathologic characteristics and diagnostic imaging findings of a patient with advanced small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix who had developed carcinoma meningitis during systematic chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology Radiology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. watanabe@med.kindai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yoh
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Hidekatsu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakai
authors.forename: Izumi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Imaoka
authors.forename: Takamichi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hoshiai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018278:Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D055756:Meningeal Carcinomatosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents