Neoplastic lumbosacral radiculoplexopathy in prostate cancer by direct perineural spread: An unusual entity

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 659-665

  Ladha, Shafeeq S ^a   Spinner, Robert J ^b   Suarez, Guillermo A ^b   Amrami, Kimberly K ^b   Dyck, P James B ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinomatous neuropathy; Lumbosacral plexopathy; Lumbosacral radiculoplexopathy; Perineural spread; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB WEAKNESS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; METASTASIS; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NEOPLASTIC LUMBOSACRAL RADICULOPLEXOPATHY; PELVIS CANCER; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADICULOPATHY;

AGED; CARCINOMA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEG; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADICULOPATHY; SACRUM; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATICA; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 33750476680     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20597     Document Type: Article

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