OBJECTIVE: To report a biopsy-proven neurolymphomatosis in a young woman with previous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) of uterine cervix. PATIENT: The patient presented with a painful brachial plexopathy and developed multiple cranial and spinal nerve palsies. METHODS AND RESULTS: The diagnosis was achieved by an open brachial plexus biopsy. A PET/CT study was used to assess the full extent of the disease and showed involvement of additional cranial nerves and spinal nerve roots. A complete although short lasting clinical and radiological response was achieved by means of systemic high dose methotrexate treatment combined with rituximab and intra-CSF injections of cytarabine.
OBJECTIVE: To report a biopsy-proven neurolymphomatosis in a young woman with previous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) of uterine cervix. PATIENT: The patient presented with a painful brachial plexopathy and developed multiple cranial and spinal nerve palsies. METHODS AND RESULTS: The diagnosis was achieved by an open brachial plexus biopsy. A PET/CT study was used to assess the full extent of the disease and showed involvement of additional cranial nerves and spinal nerve roots. A complete although short lasting clinical and radiological response was achieved by means of systemic high dose methotrexate treatment combined with rituximab and intra-CSF injections of cytarabine.
Authors: Joachim M Baehring; Denise Damek; Emily C Martin; Rebecca A Betensky; Fred H Hochberg Journal: Neuro Oncol Date: 2003-04 Impact factor: 12.300
Authors: Sigal Grisariu; Batia Avni; Tracy T Batchelor; Martin J van den Bent; Felix Bokstein; David Schiff; Outi Kuittinen; Marc C Chamberlain; Patrick Roth; Anatoly Nemets; Edna Shalom; Dina Ben-Yehuda; Tali Siegal Journal: Blood Date: 2010-04-05 Impact factor: 22.113
Authors: Klaus Strobel; Bernhard Pestalozzi; Ilja Ciernik; Niklaus G Schaefer; Abbas Yousefi Koma; Thomas F Hany Journal: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging Date: 2006-07-06 Impact factor: 9.236