Outcome of early detection and radiotherapy for occult spinal cord compression

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 469-472

  Venkitaraman, Ramachandran ^a   Barbachano, Yolanda ^b   Dearnaley, David P ^a   Parker, Christopher C ^a   Khoo, Vincent ^a   Huddart, Robert A ^a   Eeles, Rosalind ^c   Horwich, Alan ^a   Aslam Sohaib, S ^d  

^a Academic Urology unit ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Division of Information and Statistics

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Prostate; Radiotherapy; Spinal cord compression

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36849045816     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.043     Document Type: Article

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