Primary leptomeningeal lymphoma is a rare syndrome characterized by lymphomatous meningeal infiltration without identification of systemic lymphoma or parenchymal central nervous system lymphoma. We report a case of a 62-year-old immunocompetent woman with primary spinal leptomeningeal lymphoma presenting as cervical and lumbar radiculopathy who is rare because of particularly unusual onset site of B cell lymphoma. Interestingly, the diagnosis was possible only by cerebrospinal fluid flow cytometry.

Multiple radiculopathy as the presenting manifestation of primary spinal leptomeningeal B cell lymphoma detected by flow cytometry of cerebrospinal fluid.

FIASCHI, Antonio;BENEDETTI, MARIADONATA
2011-01-01

Abstract

Primary leptomeningeal lymphoma is a rare syndrome characterized by lymphomatous meningeal infiltration without identification of systemic lymphoma or parenchymal central nervous system lymphoma. We report a case of a 62-year-old immunocompetent woman with primary spinal leptomeningeal lymphoma presenting as cervical and lumbar radiculopathy who is rare because of particularly unusual onset site of B cell lymphoma. Interestingly, the diagnosis was possible only by cerebrospinal fluid flow cytometry.
2011
spinal leptomeningeal lymphoma; primary leptomeningeal lymphoma; CSF flow cytometry
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