I mainly want to know the indications for this procedure.
2007-08-05 02:31:02 · 4 answers · asked by m.b. 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Isolated CNS vasculitis. Affects medium and small arteries over a diffuse CNS area, without symptomatic extracranial vessel involvement. Patients have CNS symptoms as well as cerebral vasculitis by angiography and leptomeningeal biopsy.
Leptomenigeal biopsy conducted on pia mater and arachnoid, the two more delicate components of the meninges.
2007-08-05 07:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leptomeningeal Biopsy
2016-12-12 03:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The leptomeninges are the two innermost layers of the coverings over the spinal cord and brain. (The pia mater and arachnoid mater).
Indications for a biopsy would be suspicion of cancer in that area. It is a site where cancer can spread to. Most likely, there would be a finding on a CT or MRI scan that would point to this.
You can't tell what it is until you have a piece of it, and that is what a biopsy will do - give you a piece that a pathologist can look at and diagnose.
2007-08-05 07:17:26 · answer #3 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a link for one application in tumors of meninges or metastasis.
look the link
2007-08-05 03:04:06 · answer #4 · answered by maussy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋