Intravascular malignant lymphomatosis.

Service de Neuroradiologie Charcot, Bâtiment Babinski, Hôpital de la Salpetrière, 75013 Paris, France. nadine.martin-duverneuil@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr

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.

PMID: 12221446 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]