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  • Title: Case report of unusual leukoencephalopathy preceding primary CNS lymphoma.
    Author: Brecher K, Hochberg FH, Louis DN, de la Monte S, Riskind P.
    Journal: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry; 1998 Dec; 65(6):917-20. PubMed ID: 9854972.
    Abstract:
    A previously healthy 35 year old woman presented with bilateral uveitis associated with multiple, evolving, non-enhancing white matter lesions consistent with a progressive leukoencephalopathy such as multiple sclerosis. Thirty months after her initial presentation, she was diagnosed with primary CNS lymphoma and died 14 months later. The unusual clinical course preceding the diagnosis suggests that a demyelinating disease may have preceded, and possibly heralded, the development of primary CNS lymphoma. Cases of "sentinel lesions" heralding the diagnosis of primary CNS lymphoma have been reported, and this case further corroborates such instances and raises further issues regarding possible neoplastic transformation occurring in inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
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