Leptomeningeal metastases from recurrent squamous cell cancer of the skin. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We report two patients with leptomeningeal metastases from squamous cell cancer of the skin. In one patient cauda equina metastases appeared 6 years after initial presentation; the tumor from radical neck dissection demonstrated perineural invasion suggesting a possible route for subarachnoid dissemination. The other patient presented 2 years after initial diagnosis with confusion and cranial nerve seven and twelve palsies. Both patients died from complications of leptomeningeal metastases.

publication date

  • July 1, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
  • Meningeal Neoplasms
  • Skin Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0038637256

PubMed ID

  • 12892236

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 63

issue

  • 3