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MEDICAL AND NEURO-ONCOLOGY

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14Pays d’affiliation déclarés

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Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is a devastating complication of malignancy and is rarely seen in esophageal carcinoma.Herein we describe a patient who was found to have not only leptomeningeal carcinomatosis from esophageal adenocarcinoma but also concurrent Pediococcus bacterial meningitis.A sixty-six year old man with known esophageal adenocarcinoma, which was previously treated with 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin with concurrent radiation therapy followed by transhiatal esophagectomy, presented sixteen months after initial treatment with failure to thrive and headache for one month.Diagnostic testing of cerebrospinal fluid revealed adenocarcinoma by cytology and Pediococcus species by culture.Pediococcus causing meningitis is uncommon, previously having been described in only one case report in the English literature.The concurrent finding of both of these conditions in our patient is extremely unusual.It is unknown if the concurrent conditions of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis and Pediococcus meningitis are related or independent conditions.We postulate several possible mechanisms for the causation of this unusual presentation and review recent literature regarding the treatment of these conditions.

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Titre Crossref
MEDICAL AND NEURO-ONCOLOGY
Date Crossref
21/10/2011
Éditeur
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Type
journal-article

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Les institutions déclarées

University of South FloridaRonald Reagan UCLA Medical CenterUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical CenterMoffitt Cancer CenterLouis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical CenterNewYork–Presbyterian HospitalColumbia University Irving Medical CenterNew York Hospital QueensCenter for Neuro-OncologyDana-Farber Brigham Cancer CenterThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterVanderbilt UniversityUniversity of WashingtonFred Hutch Cancer CenterNovartis (United States)Northwestern UniversityBrigham and Women's HospitalUniversity of AkronSumma Health SystemNovartis (Switzerland)Novartis FoundationDuke UniversityPediatric Brain Tumor FoundationUniversity of Illinois ChicagoDuke Medical CenterDuke University HospitalMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUniversity of California, Los AngelesHarvard University PressEndeavor HealthBarrow Neurological InstituteUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonSeattle Cancer Care AllianceSeattle UniversityAlbany Medical Center HospitalKaiser PermanenteThe University of TokyoUniversity of RegensburgUniversität InnsbruckSanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical SciencesMilitary Medical AcademyUniversity of Nebraska at OmahaHokkaido UniversityUniversity of TsukubaSaitama Medical UniversityKyorin UniversityHiroshima UniversityKumamoto UniversityUniversity of California San DiegoCedars-Sinai Medical CenterUniversity of California, IrvineMedical College of WisconsinUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamBoston Children's HospitalBoston Children's MuseumUniversity of ChicagoGerman Cancer Research CenterHeidelberg UniversitySapienza University of RomeCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterDeakin UniversityThe University of SydneyThe Royal Melbourne HospitalSun Yat-sen UniversityUniversity of LausanneMayo ClinicWinnMedThe University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science CenterUniversity of EdinburghThe Ohio State UniversityEmory UniversityBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterParacelsus Medical UniversityVirginia Mason Medical CenterDalhousie UniversityCancer Research InstituteUniversity of BergenStanford UniversityShandong UniversityInsermUniversity of TurinUniversity of PisaUniversity of Bari Aldo MoroFortis HealthcareChristian Medical College, VelloreMcGill UniversityNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfNational Institutes of HealthNebraska Medical CenterUniversity of PittsburghThomas Jefferson UniversityColumbia UniversityUniversity of DundeeMonmouth Medical CenterMaine Medical CenterMassachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

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