Early detection and treatment of spinal cord compression

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-86

  Ruckdeschel, John C ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

BABINSKI REFLEX; BACKACHE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG CANCER; MYELOGRAPHY; MYELOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTATE CANCER; PUNCTURE; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SCINTISCANNING; SPINE SURGERY; ALGORITHM; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEOPLASM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 17844392879     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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