Spinal Leptomeningeal Lymphoma Presenting as Pseudotumor Syndrome

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Title Spinal Leptomeningeal Lymphoma Presenting as Pseudotumor Syndrome
Creator Rebekah M. Ahmed, MBBS, John King, MD, FRACP, John Gibson, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA, Michael E. Buckland, MB, BS, PhD, FRCPA, Ruta Gupta, MD, FRCPA, Michael Gonzales, MB, BS, FRCPA, G. Michael Halmagyi, MD, FRACP
Affiliation Departments of Neurology, Haematology, and Neuropathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; and Departments of Neurology and Neuropathology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Abstract We describe 2 patients with inexorably progressive pseudotumor syndrome (intracranial hypertension without mass lesion or ventriculomegaly) both initially misdiagnosed as having idiopathic intracranial hypertension and who were eventually found to have spinal leptomeningeal lymphoma. Neither had, at any time, any clinical signs of a spinal cord or root lesion. We discuss the possible implications of these observations regarding the diagnosis and mechanism of the pseudotumor syndrome.
Subject Adult; Biopsy; Female; Humans; Intracranial Hypertension; Lymphoma; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Meningeal Neoplasms; Middle Older people; Spinal Cord Neoplasms; Spinal Nerve Roots
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Date 2013-03
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Setname ehsl_novel_jno
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d53t1g
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