Management of spinal cord and cauda equina compression secondary to epidural metastatic disease in adults with malignant germ cell tumours

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 481-490

  Gale, J ^a   Mead, G M ^a   Simmonds, P D ^a  

^a ROYAL SOUTH HANTS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cauda equina compression; Chemotherapy; Epidural metastatic disease; Malignant germ cell tumours; Radiotherapy spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUDA EQUINA COMPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG MEGADOSE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALIGNANT TERATOMA; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 0036893829     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/clon.2002.0167     Document Type: Article

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