Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis following a slowly progressive course.
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Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis. A case report.
This 54-year-old patient with a breast carcinoma of one year's evolution presented a progressive paraparesis and sphincter disregulation of a week evolution; MRI image showed a tumor in the medullary conus. She improved after removal of the conus mass. The histologic diagnosis was metastasis of adenocarcinoma. Metastasis at this level is infrequent and represents less than 1% of all spinal meta...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.52.12.1451