Spinal metastases from myxoid liposarcoma warrant screening with magnetic resonance imaging

Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1815-1822

  Schwab, Joseph H ^a   Boland, Patrick J ^a   Antonescu, Cristina ^a   Bilsky, Mark H ^b   Healey, John H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone scan; Myxoid liposarcoma; Positron emission tomography scan; Spinal metastasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MYXOSARCOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIPOSARCOMA, MYXOID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 35048871266     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22992     Document Type: Article

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