Treatment of spinal epidural metastasis improves patient survival and functional state

Neurology

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1360-1366

  Zaidat, Osama O ^a   Ruff, Robert L ^a  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUDA EQUINA; DECOMPRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE METASTASIS;

EID: 0037076472     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.58.9.1360     Document Type: Article

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