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meninges

Three membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord. The thickest is the outermost layer, the dura mater; the middle layer is the arachnoid mater; and the innermost layer is the pia mater. Cerebrospinal fluid circulates between the two innermost layers.



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Facial port-wine stains and associated leptomeningeal angiomas typify the vascular findings.
Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed mild leptomeningeal enhancement.
The company is currently completing the filing of a New Drug Application for its lead product, DepoCyt, an anti-cancer therapeutic for the treatment of neoplastic meningitis (also known as leptomeningeal metastases) arising from sold tumors and is continuing Phase III clinical trials for leukemia and lymphoma indications.
 
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