Thyroid carcinoma with isolated spinal metastasis: Case history and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 245-248

  Scarrow, Alan M ^a   Colina, Jose Luis ^a   Levy, Elad I ^a   Welch, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Radiculopathy; Spine; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0032699419     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(99)00040-2     Document Type: Article

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