Presentation
Headache, history of lung cancer.
Patient Data
Age: 60 years
Gender: Female
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Mild to moderate communicating hydrocephalus with periventricular lucency that may represent transependymal flow of CSF.
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Diffuse leptomeningeal enhancement, most severe over the left cerebral convexity. Mild communicating hydrocephalus.
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2.5 cm soft tissue nodule posterior segment right upper lobe with small right pleural effusion and right paratracheal, precarinal and subcarinal lymphadenopathy.
Case Discussion
A good example of leptomeningeal metastasis from lung cancer resulting in communicating hydrocephalus.