Section 2 - Other CNS disease related to underlying and secondary effects of malignancy

A. Hematologic/ Cerebrovascular
1. Intracranial hemorrhage
   a. extraaxial
   b. intraparenchymal
2. Sinovenous thrombosis
3. Cerebral infarction
B. Paraneoplastic Syndromes

1. Progressive necrotizing myelopathy
C. Infection
1. Sinusitis
   a. bacterial
   b. fungal
2. Intracranial infection
   a. IC spread of opportunistic/fungal sinusitis
   i. meningitis, extraaxial empyema
   ii. brain abscess
   b. hematogenous spread
   i. meningitis
   ii. brain abscess
   iii. encephalitis
   c. other (ie. IC spread of other extracranial infection)
3. Other head and neck infection

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