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Bookmark or Share- New research offers a path forward with treating leptomeningeal disease ...When cancer cells enter certain parts of the lining of the brain and spine called the leptomeninges, it can lead to a type of metastasis known as leptomeningeal disease (LMD). Isabella Glitza Oliva, M.D., Ph.D., shares how it’s treated and research that’s underway to expand options.
- Clinical features and diagnosis of leptomeningeal disease ... - UpToDateLeptomeningeal disease (LMD; also referred to as leptomeningeal metastases or carcinomatous meningitis) is a rare but frequently devastating complication of advanced cancer from solid tumors, mostly commonly lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.
- Leptomeningeal Disease: What It Is, Symptoms & Prognosis - Cleveland ClinicLeptomeningeal disease (also known as LMD, leptomeningeal metastases, or LM) is cancer in your cerebrospinal fluid and in your leptomeninges, the membranes that surround your brain and spinal cord. It happens when an advanced cancer spreads from part of your body to your cerebrospinal fluid and leptomeninges.
- Treatment of leptomeningeal disease from solid tumorsLeptomeningeal disease (LMD; also referred to as leptomeningeal metastases or carcinomatous meningitis) is a rare but frequently devastating complication of advanced cancer from solid tumors, most commonly lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.
- Leptomeningeal disease: current diagnostic and therapeutic strategiesLeptomeningeal disease (LMD) is a late-stage complication of systemic cancers caused by multifocal metastases to the leptomeninges, which consist of the pia mater, arachnoid, and subarachnoid space.
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