Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in a patient with gallbladder carcinoma

Nisha Jose, Harsha Teja Perla, Ramya Iyadurai, Geeta Chacko

Journal of Cytology 2017 34(2):118-121

Carcinomatous meningitis is a rare manifestation of malignancy. It is increasingly being recognized in lung carcinoma, breast carcinoma, melanomas, gastrointestinal malignancies, lymphomas, and leukemia and it is almost never seen in gallbladder malignancies. We present a case whose primary presentation was as a carcinomatous meningitis that was subsequently found to be secondary to a gallbladder primary.

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