Intramedullary spinal cord and leptomeningeal metastases in a patient with carcinoma of the uterine cervix

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 124-127

  Kastritis, E ^a   Moulopoulos, L A ^a   Politi, Ek ^b   Kostis, E ^a   Pissakas, G ^c   Dimopoulos, M A ^a   Bamias, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Intrathecal; Meningitis; MRI; Neoplastic; Radiotherapy; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745056528     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.01.025     Document Type: Article

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