Metastatic spinal cord compression: Diagnostic delay, treatment, and outcome

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1 B, 1999, Pages 677-684

  Solberg, A ^b   Bremnes, Roy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Delay; Epidural metastasis; Laminectomy; Radiotherapy; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GAIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032896504     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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