Metastasis of breast cancer to a lumbar spinal nerve root ganglion

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Schulz, Matthias ^a,b   Lamont, Duncan ^a   Muthu, Thirayan ^a   Hussain, Zakier ^a   Balakrishnan, Venkataraman ^a  

^a WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metastatic breast cancer; Spinal nerve root ganglion lesion; Surgical debulking

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE ROOT TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL NERVE METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349753485     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ae26cc     Document Type: Article

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