Neoplastic meningitis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sujit Routray, M.D. [2]

Overview

The infiltration of the subarachnoid space with cancer cells. The cancer cells can be metastatic or from a primary brain tumor like medulloblastoma.

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