Case Report

Vol. 35 No. 4 (2003): The Eurasian Journal of Medicine

LEPTOMENINGEAL METASTASE FROM ASYMPTOMATIC SMALL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG

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Ümit Ali Malkoç
Gökşin Şengül
Hakan Hadi Kadıoğlu

Abstract

Abstract


Brain metastases which settle down in the leptomeningeal area are rare entity. Neurologic disorders are found in more than half of the patients who are lung cancer. A case 68 year old a man, with diffuse leptomeningeal metastases which was supported as pancreas cancer in helping investigations but was defined us small cell lung carcinoma in open brain biopsy has been presented.


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