Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-253

  Taylor, Jennie W ^a   Schiff, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

epidural spinal cord compression; radiosurgery; Spinal metastasis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULATION; ATTENTION; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; EDEMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MYELOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SOMNOLENCE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; ANIMAL; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77954169403     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: 10989021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1255221     Document Type: Review

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