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F Higes Pascual

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PubMed2000

[A case report of mixed, parenchymatous and meningo-basal neurocysticercosis].

Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system. Its incidence diminished dramatically in the last decades in our country, but due to emigration from endemic areas is expected an increase in the next years. In spite of the new immunologic and neuroradiographic techniques, diagnostic of centeinty may be very difficult. In this way exists controversy about the appropriate treatment. We present a case of mixed neurocysticercosis with parenchymal and meningeal disease that shows the difficulty of this disease in its diagnostic and treatment.

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PubMed1992

[Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis as a form of presentation of anorectal melanoma].

We report a case of anorectal melanoma, whose first manifestation was a carcinomatous meningitis. The anorectal melanoma is a rare tumor of great malignity which represents 1-3 per cent of melanomas and 0.5 per cent of anorectal tumors. The most frequent symptoms are non-specific: rectal bleeding, pain at defecation, changes in the intestinal rythm. Sixty per cent of cases presented metastasis at the moment of diagnosis limited to the regional lymph nodes. In none of the cases published did the metastasis present as the first symptom. The case presented here manifested itself only with neurologic symptomatology compatible with carcinomatous meningitis whose finding led to the search of the original tumor, and this is what makes this case exceptional since the infrequency of this tumor is united to an unusual clinical presentation, not previously described in the literature.

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