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Progressive multiple cranial nerve palsies as the presenting symptom of meningeal carcinomatosis from occult colon adenocarcinoma
- Source :
- Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan). 51(7)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- We herein describe a rare case of meningeal carcinomatosis in a 77-year-old woman who had bilateral deafness as the initial symptom of a previously undetected colon cancer malignancy. Meningeal carcinomatosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis in cases of abrupt-onset sensorineural deafness. Both MRI scans and cerebrospinal fluid evaluation are necessary diagnostic tools, and should be used in conjunction as each of these procedures could have false-negative results. This should apply even when there is no known primary malignancy.
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Colorectal cancer
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Bilateral Deafness
Adenocarcinoma
Malignancy
Diagnosis, Differential
Cerebrospinal fluid
Fatal Outcome
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Aged
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Magnetic resonance imaging
General Medicine
Hearing Loss, Sudden
medicine.disease
Occult
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Cranial Nerve Diseases
Meningeal carcinomatosis
Colonic Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Unknown Primary
Female
Differential diagnosis
business
Meningeal Carcinomatosis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13497235
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e45540b9518197fd9894b77c5f3e23f9