Metastatic spinal cord compression: The hidden danger

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 458-461

  Selvaggi, Kathy ^a   Abrahm, Janet ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GABAPENTIN; METHADONE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OXYCODONE; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER PAIN; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SHOULDER; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746960751     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0561     Document Type: Article

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