Metastatic neuroendocrine tumor presenting as spinal cord compression - A case report and brief comment

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 585-586

  Bailey, David ^a   Robustelli, Betty Ann ^b   Mayer, Jeffrey ^b   Andrews, Joseph ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CECUM TUMOR; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; VERTEBRA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOID TUMOR; CECAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0035491006     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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