Turkish Neurosurgery 1990 , Vol 1 , Num 4
BLINDNESS AS AN INITIAL MANIFESTATION OF MENINGEAL CARCINOMATOSIS
Mehmet ÖZMENOĞLU1, Sezer Şener KOMŞUOĞLU1, Cemal ÖZCAN1, Süleyman BAYKAL2, Yavuz OZORAN3, Fadıl AKTÜRK2
1Karadeniz Technical University, Farabi Medical Faculty Departments of Neurology, Trabzon, TÜRKİYE
2Karadeniz Technical University, Farabi Medical Faculty Departments of Neurosurgery, Trabzon, TÜRKİYE
3Karadeniz Technical University, Farabi Medical Faculty Departments of Pathology, Trabzon, TÜRKİYE
The term meningeal cardnomatosis refers to diffuse metastasis of the leptomeninges by systemic cancer. The diagnosis is suggested by signs and symptoms of headache, dementia, meningeal irritation and involvement of multiple cranial or spinal nerve roots. Blindness as an initial manifestation of meningeal carcinomatosis is very rare without evidence of a primary carcinoma. We describe the clinical course of a patient with meningeal cardnomatosis whose initial symptom was blindness. Keywords : Blindness. meningeal carcinomatosis. systemic cancer
Corresponding author : Mehmet Özenoğlu