Intramedullary Spinal Cord and Brain Metastases from Thyroid Carcinoma Detected 11 Years after Initial Diagnosis: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 593-597

  Honma, Yutaka ^a   Kawakita, Kenya ^a   Nagao, Seigo ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

intramedullary spinal cord tumor; magnetic resonance imaging; spinal metastasis; thyroid carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; DYSESTHESIA; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; THYROID CARCINOMA;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029843620     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.593     Document Type: Article

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