Spondylodiscitis in patients with spinal cord compression: A possible pitfall in radiation oncology

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 307-309

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Bremer, Michael ^a   Goehde, Susanne ^a   Joergensen, Maik ^a   Karstens, Johann Hinrich ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Spinal cord compression; Spondylodiscitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035370475     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00300-5     Document Type: Article

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