Spinal granulocytic sarcoma manifesting as radiculopathy in a nonleukemic patient - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 131-136

  Inoue, Tomoo ^a   Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^b   Shimizu, Hiroaki ^b   Kanamori, Masayuki ^a   Kumabe, Toshihiro ^a   Watanabe, Mika ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Granulocytic sarcoma; Immunohistochemistry; Leukemia; Positron emission tomography; Spine

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IDARUBICIN; LEUPRORELIN;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RADICULOPATHY; SACRUM; SARCOMA, MYELOID; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41549133184     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.131     Document Type: Article

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