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Nervous System Diseases > Nervous System Neoplasms > Central Nervous System Neoplasms > Meningeal Neoplasms
Neoplasms > Neoplasms by Site > Nervous System Neoplasms > Central Nervous System Neoplasms > Meningeal Neoplasms

Preferred term

Meningeal Neoplasms  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Meningeal Neoplasm
  • Meningeal Tumor
  • Meningeal Tumors
  • Neoplasm, Meningeal
  • Neoplasms, Meningeal
  • Tumor, Meningeal
  • Tumors, Meningeal

Note

  • coord IM with histol type of neopl (IM); for intracranial or spinal meningioma, see note on MENINGIOMA; intradural extramedullary neopl do not go here: index under SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS & do not try to locate "intradural" or "extramedullary"; meningeal leukemia does not go here: index under MENINGES /pathol (IM) + LEUKEMIC INFILTRATION (IM) (see note there) + specific type of leukemia (IM) if relevant

Scope note

  • Benign and malignant neoplastic processes that arise from or secondarily involve the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord.

History note

  • 78

In other languages

  • aivokalvojen kasvaimet

    Finnish

  • aivokalvojen syöpä
  • aivokalvojen tuumorit
  • aivokalvokasvaimet
  • aivokalvosyöpä
  • aivokalvotuumorit
  • Hjärnhinnetumörer

    Swedish

  • Hjärnhinnecancer
  • Leptomeningeala tumörer
  • Meningeal cancer
  • Meningeala tumörer

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008577

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