Primary Diffuse Leptomeningeal Melanomatosis in a Child with Extracranial Metastasis: Case Report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Primary meningeal melanomatosis is an extremely rare tumor with very few documented responses to treatment. A 3-year-old male with a complex past medical history, including prematurity and shunted hydrocephalus, was diagnosed with primary meningeal melanomatosis with peritoneal implants. Molecular testing revealed an NRAS Q61R mutation. The patient received proton craniospinal radiation followed by immunotherapy with nivolumab (1 mg/kg) and ipilimumab (3 mg/kg) IV every 3 weeks and, upon progression, he was switched to a higher dose of nivolumab (3 mg/kg IV every 2 weeks) and binimetinib (24 mg/m2/dose, twice a day). The patient had significant improvement of CNS disease with radiation therapy and initial immunotherapy but progression of extracranial metastatic peritoneal and abdominal disease. Radiation was not administered to the whole abdomen. After two cycles of nivolumab and treatment with the MEK inhibitor binimetinib, he had radiographic and clinical improvement in abdominal metastasis and ascitis. He ultimately died from RSV infection, Klebsiella sepsis, and subdural hemorrhage without evidence of tumor progression. This is the first report of a child with primary meningeal melanomatosis with extracranial metastatic disease with response to a combination of radiation, immunotherapy and MEK inhibitor therapy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".