Neurologic complications of prostate cancer

American Family Physician

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1834-1840

  Benjamin, Ramsis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; GADOLINIUM; HYDROMORPHONE; MORPHINE; OXYCODONE; PHENYTOIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DEXAMETHASONE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036571037     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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