ArticleCase reports in oncology2011
Carcinomatous meningitis: the natural history of successfully treated metastatic bladder cancer.
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- A Case Report of a 64-Year-Old Man With Urothelial Carcinoma With Brain and Leptomeningeal Metastases Treated With Intrathecal Methotrexate as Part of Multimodal Management.The American journal of case reports · 2026Article
- Diagnostic Challenge: The Case of a 70-Year-Old Man Who Presents With Progressive Vision Loss and Headaches.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2025Article
- Isolated Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis in Urothelial Carcinoma: A Case Report of Positive CSF Cytology With Negative Imaging.Case reports in oncological medicine · 2025Article
- Central Nervous System Metastasis in Patients With Urothelial Carcinoma: Institutional Experience and a Comprehensive Review of the Literature.Clinical genitourinary cancer · 2020Review
- Meningeal carcinomatosis from bladder cancer: A case report and review of the literature.Molecular and clinical oncology · 2019Article
- Solitary cerebral metastasis from transitional cell carcinoma after a 14-year remission of urinary bladder cancer treated with gemcitabine: Case report and literature review.Surgical neurology international · 2012Article
- Muscle invasive bladder cancer culminating with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du CanadaArticle
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Abstract
Carcinomatous meningitis due to bladder cancer is a rare entity reported only in case reports. Optimal therapy is thus poorly defined with earlier cases reporting an unsuccessful outcome. Here we report a case of late carcinomatous meningitis secondary to transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder occurring in a patient in complete remission. He was successfully treated with intrathecal methotrexate and whole brain irradiation and experienced prolonged survival after treatment. With modern chemotherapy increasing complete remissions and survival rates in patients with TCC, more and more patients are being reported with carcinomatous meningitis. We raise the question of whether central nervous system prophylaxis should be considered in patients with TCC achieving a complete remission to chemotherapy in the metastatic setting.
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