Metastatic testicular cancer presenting as spinal cord compression: Report of two cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-33

  Arnold, Paul M ^a   Morgan, Chad J ^a   Morantz, Robert A ^b   Eckard, Donald A ^a   Kepes, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Research Medical Center Brookside Campus   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural spinal compression; Germ cell cancer; Seminomatous; Vertebral spinal metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; TESTIS CANCER; THORACIC SPINE;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; GERMINOMA; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033797260     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(00)00251-2     Document Type: Article

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