Clinical outcome in patients with intramedullary spinal cord metastases from lung cancer

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 172-176

  Conill, C ^a   Marruecos, J ^a   Verger, E ^a   Berenguer, J ^a   Lomena F ^a   Domingo Domenech J ^a   Grau, J J ^a   Casas, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intramedullary spinal cord metastases; Lung cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Radio therapy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CERVICAL SPINE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOLOGY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PARAPLEGIA; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250354490     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-007-0031-6     Document Type: Article

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