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Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis as a rare cause of pain in cervical spine

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cancer, March 2016
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Title
Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis as a rare cause of pain in cervical spine
Published in
BMC Cancer, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12885-016-2224-2
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Štefan Sivák, Ema Kantorová, Egon Kurča, Juraj Marcinek, Pavol Slávik, Jozef Michalik, Vladimír Nosáľ

Abstract

Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis (PDLG) is a very rare neuro-oncological disease, with only 90 cases of PDLG described in medical literature so far. We present a case report of a 56-years-old female patient, who was originally hospitalized due to cervical spine pain lasting several months. Despite complex diagnostics and treatment, the neurological state of the patient progressively deteriorated. Patient died 10 months after the first reported symptom. Postmortem pathological findings resulted in the diagnosis of PDLG. Affection of the cervical spine in early stages of PDLG is rare and has been described in only six patients so far. PDLG is a fatal neuro-oncological disease and it must be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of persistent back pain syndromes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 4%
Unknown 22 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 17%
Student > Bachelor 4 17%
Other 3 13%
Researcher 2 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 6 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 17%
Neuroscience 2 9%
Psychology 1 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 6 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 March 2016.
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#13,109,801
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#2,799
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#137,698
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Cancer
#52
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