leptomeningeal

The leptomeningeal collateral circulation allows a very limited degree of compensation for this.

People with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis may experience dizziness, numbness on the side the body or trouble speaking.

The scan showed a rare cancer - a disseminated oligodendroglioma-like leptomeningeal tumour.

Harper has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a lethal cancer of the membranes surrounding the brain.

They are carried throughout the host's circulatory system, and embed themselves in the walls of the leptomeningeal arteries.

Leptomeningeal metastasis most commonly is due to breast, lung, or melanoma primary tumors.

It is used to treat brain tumors, leukemia/lymphoma or leptomeningeal disease by intrathecal drug administration.

Type 3 has leptomeningeal angioma involvement exclusively.

MRI of leptomeningeal melanocytosis in a patient with neurofibromatosis.

Valerie Harper's terminal brain cancer: What is leptomeningeal carcinomatosis?

Tests have determined Harper has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a condition that happens when cancer spreads to the fluid surrounding the brain.

If a port-wine stain around the eye is found, the patient should be screened for intracranial leptomeningeal angiomatosis.

Valerie Harper's disclosure that she was diagnosed with a rare, terminal form of brain cancer has people talking about leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

Shortly after, Harper was diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, also called cerebral carcinomatosis.

Though most commonly involving white matter, many patients also had lesions in deep grey matter structures, as well as leptomeningeal enhancement.

Unlike other tumors, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis affects the coating of the brain and spinal cord called the meninges.

Harper's kind of cancer, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, can be slowed but the cells are adaptable and can develop a resistance to treatment.

Doctors told her she has the rare condition, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, which involves cancer cells spreading into the fluid-filled membrane near the brain.

Although typically asymptomatic, malignancy occurs in the form of leptomeningeal melanoma in over half of patients.

Type 1 includes facial and leptomeningeal angiomas as well as the possibility of glaucoma or choroidal lesions.

Harper has the rare condition leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, which occurs when cancer spreads to the fluid-filled membranes that surround the brain.

Headache attributed to encephalotrigeminal or leptomeningeal angiomatosis (Sturge Weber syndrome)

MRI is also a sensitive way of detecting nodular or diffuse leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in the spinal canal.

Tests revealed that she had leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition that occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain.

It's rare that someone does well with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, Brawley said, which may explain why Harper's doctor said her current health "defies the odds."