A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis
Primary leptomeningeal melanomatosis is a rare central nervous system neoplasm originating from leptomeningeal melanocytes. The cases can be presented with focal neurologic deficit, seizure, neuropsychiatric symptoms or increased intracranial pressure symptoms along with encephalitis or meningitis....
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| author | Aslan Tekataş Yağmur İ. Gemici Sedat Alpaslan Tuncel Bekir Çağlı Ebru Taştekin Ebru Taştekin Yahya Çelik |
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| description | Primary leptomeningeal melanomatosis is a rare central nervous system neoplasm originating from leptomeningeal melanocytes. The cases can be presented with focal neurologic deficit, seizure, neuropsychiatric symptoms or increased intracranial pressure symptoms along with encephalitis or meningitis. Diagnosis can be made upon imaging studies, cytopathologic examination of cerebrospinal fluid and biopsy. Biopsy can return false negative since the leptomeningeal involvement is not diffuse. In this study, a case is presented who admitted to hospital with leptomenengitis symptoms such as headache, fever and altered state of consciousness and developed additional neurologic signs after months. First biopsy came out as normal while the second one did as positive. This case has been found worth presenting since this is a tumor of rare existence and the diagnosis was made upon the second biopsy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e533913da2d14f9da8361dd30ef7f89d2023-02-15T16:18:06ZengGalenos YayineviTürk Nöroloji Dergisi1301-062X2014-12-0120413814010.4274/tnd.26122A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal MelanomatosisAslan Tekataş0Yağmur İ. Gemici1Sedat Alpaslan Tuncel2Bekir Çağlı3Ebru Taştekin4Ebru Taştekin5Yahya Çelik6Trakya University, Medicine Faculty, Department Of NeurologyTrakya University, Medicine Faculty, Department Of NeurologyTrakya University, Medicine Faculty, Department Of RadiologyTrakya University, Medicine Faculty, Department Of RadiologyTrakya University, Medicine Faculty, Department Of PatologyTrakya University, Medicine Faculty, Department Of RadiologyTrakya University, Medicine Faculty, Department Of NeurologyPrimary leptomeningeal melanomatosis is a rare central nervous system neoplasm originating from leptomeningeal melanocytes. The cases can be presented with focal neurologic deficit, seizure, neuropsychiatric symptoms or increased intracranial pressure symptoms along with encephalitis or meningitis. Diagnosis can be made upon imaging studies, cytopathologic examination of cerebrospinal fluid and biopsy. Biopsy can return false negative since the leptomeningeal involvement is not diffuse. In this study, a case is presented who admitted to hospital with leptomenengitis symptoms such as headache, fever and altered state of consciousness and developed additional neurologic signs after months. First biopsy came out as normal while the second one did as positive. This case has been found worth presenting since this is a tumor of rare existence and the diagnosis was made upon the second biopsy.http://www.tjn.org.tr/jvi.aspx?pdir=tjn&plng=eng&un=TJN-26122&look4=Primary leptomeningeal melanomaHeadacheIncreased intracranial pressureLeptomenengitis |
| spellingShingle | Aslan Tekataş Yağmur İ. Gemici Sedat Alpaslan Tuncel Bekir Çağlı Ebru Taştekin Ebru Taştekin Yahya Çelik A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis Türk Nöroloji Dergisi Primary leptomeningeal melanoma Headache Increased intracranial pressure Leptomenengitis |
| title | A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis |
| title_full | A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis |
| title_fullStr | A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis |
| title_short | A Rare Cause of Headache and Increased Intracranial Pressure: Primary Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis |
| title_sort | rare cause of headache and increased intracranial pressure primary leptomeningeal melanomatosis |
| topic | Primary leptomeningeal melanoma Headache Increased intracranial pressure Leptomenengitis |
| url | http://www.tjn.org.tr/jvi.aspx?pdir=tjn&plng=eng&un=TJN-26122&look4= |
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