Embolization as treatment for spinal cord compression from renal cell carcinoma: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1260-1263

  Kuether, Todd A ^a   Nesbit, Gary M ^a   Barnwell, Stanley L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteries, embolization; Palliation; Renal cell carcinoma; Spinal metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029855457     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199612000-00044     Document Type: Article

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