Vertebral metastases and spinal cord compression
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Vertebral metastases with high risk of symptomatic malignant spinal cord compression.
OBJECTIVE To find vertebral metastases with high risk of symptomatic malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC), features of vertebral metastases caused motor deficits of the lower extremities were examined. METHODS From 2004 through 2006, 78 patients with metastases of the thoracic and/or the cervical spine were treated with radiation therapy (RT). Of these, 86 irradiated lesions in 73 patient...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1983
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1983.7