Objective:To report a rare case of otogenic tension pneumocephalus as a complication of a diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor in a patient with a ventriculoperitoneal(V.P.)shunt.Patients:Twenty-three-year-old ma...
Supported by the Chongging Medical Scientific Research Project(Joint Project of Chongqing Health Commission and Science and Technology Bureau),No.2022QNXM013 and No.2023MSXM016.
Determining whether sevoflurane sedation in children leads to“pseudo”prominent leptomeningeal contrast enhancement(pLMCE)on 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging will help reduce overdiagnosis by radiologists and clari...
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Aga Khan University Hospital on April 22,2020(2020-3611-9104).
BACKGROUND Prominent leptomeningeal contrast enhancement(LMCE)in the brain is observed in some pediatric patients during sedation for imaging.However,based on clinical history and cerebrospinal fluid analysis,the pati...
BACKGROUND Patients diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer with activated epidermal growth factor receptor mutations are more likely to develop leptomeningeal(LM)metastasis than other types of lung cancers and have...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFA0801900 and 2018YFA0801104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31771131,81891002,31921002,and 32070972);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB32020000);the Hundred-Talent Program(Chinese Academy of Sciences);the Beijing Municipal Science&Technology Commission(Z210010 and Z181100001518001);the Baoding Technical Program(2141ZF027)。
Aging is a slow and progressive natural process that compromises the normal functions of cells,tissues,organs,and systems.The aging of the hypothalamic median eminence(ME),a structural gate linking neural and endocrin...
Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor(DLGNT)in adolescent female is rare and easy to be misdiagnosed due to its nonspecificity.This article described the characteristics of an adolescent female DLGNT patient with ...
Multiple sclerosis(MS) is a disease of the central nervous system characterized by inflammation, demyelination, and neuronal damage. Environmental and genetic factors are associated with the risk of developing MS, but...
Brain(leptomeningeal) metastasis is one of the most common and severe complications of lung cancer. This article interprets expert consensus on the treatment advice for brain(leptomeningeal) metastasis of lung cancer,...
Concurrent dural and leptomeningeal metastatic carcinomatosis are very rare and have a poor prognosis. Here we present a woman with advanced estrogen receptor (ER) positive and progesterone receptor (PR) positive brea...
Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is a very rare manifestation in patients diagnosed with esophagogastric junction and gastric cancer. Its prognosis is ominous and therapy outcomes are disappointing. Herein, we present tw...