Spinal leptomeningeal metastasis from cerebral glioblastoma multiforme presenting with radicular pain: Case report and literature review

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 33-37

  Alatakis, Steven ^a,b   Malham, Gregory M ^a   Thien, Christopher ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Address Reprint Requests To: Dr Steven Alatakis   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glioblastoma multiforme; Metastasis; Neoplasm; Radiculopathy; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THORACIC SPINE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0034870149     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(01)00459-1     Document Type: Article

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