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A Woman in Her 40s With Headache and New-Onset Seizures
- Source :
- JAMA neurology. 74(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- A woman in her 40s with a history of plasma cell leukemia presented with 1 month of intermittent headaches followed by a seizure. Results from laboratory studies were notable for a cerebrospinal fluid opening pressure of 28 mm H2O and 8 white blood cells, including 1 atypical plasma cell. Imaging studies revealed confluent bifrontal white matter fluid-attenuated inversion recovery hyperintensities, as well as a contrast-enhancing sellar lesion. The patient underwent a stereotactic biopsy. The differential diagnosis, pathologic findings, and diagnosis are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Stereotactic biopsy
Leukemia, Plasma Cell
White matter
Lesion
Diagnosis, Differential
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cerebrospinal fluid
Seizures
medicine
Humans
Plasma cell leukemia
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Headache
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hyperintensity
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Differential diagnosis
medicine.symptom
Headaches
business
030215 immunology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21686157
- Volume :
- 74
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JAMA neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....16635fe15e11ebd5cf8ab0895dc9294c