Treatment and prognosis of patients with paraplegia or quadriplegia because of metastatic spinal cord compression in prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-173

  Nagata, M ^a   Ueda, T ^a   Komiya, A ^a   Suzuki, H ^a   Akakura, K ^a   Ishihara, M ^a   Tobe, T ^a   Ichikawa, T ^a   Igarashi, T ^a   Ito, H ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone metastasis; Paraplegia; Quadriplegia; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HISTOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOBILIZATION; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; QUADRIPLEGIA; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10744232181     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500641     Document Type: Article

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