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Leptomeningeal disease in uveal melanoma: a case series

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  1. Isabella C. Glitza and Sujan T. Reddy have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd # 430, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Isabella C. Glitza & Sapna P. Patel

  2. The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Sujan T. Reddy

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IG and SP contributed to conception and design of the study; SR wrote the first draft of the manuscript; IG, SR, SP wrote sections of the manuscript. All authors contributed to manuscript revision, read and approved the submitted version.

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Correspondence to Isabella C. Glitza.

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Isabella C. Glitza, Sujan T. Reddy and Sapna P. Patel have no conflicts of interest.

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Glitza, I.C., Reddy, S.T. & Patel, S.P. Leptomeningeal disease in uveal melanoma: a case series. J Neurooncol 139, 503–505 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-018-2878-5

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