Intravascular malignant lymphomatosis

Neuroradiology. 2002 Sep;44(9):749-54. doi: 10.1007/s00234-002-0808-9. Epub 2002 Aug 10.

Abstract

Intravascular malignant lymphomatosis is a rare and probably often overlooked disease characterised by massive intravascular proliferation of lymphoid cells, usually with a poor prognosis. CT and MRI appearances are nonspecific; the most suggestive finding being both asymmetrical, bilateral, contrast enhancing high-signal areas on T2 weighting and infarct-like lesions of the cortex and basal ganglia. We report two patients with previously unreported dural and spinal cord involvement.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain / pathology
  • Dura Mater / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin* / diagnosis
  • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin* / epidemiology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Spinal Cord / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Vascular Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Vascular Neoplasms* / epidemiology