Myelopathies in the cancer patient: incidence, presentation, diagnosis and management.
Last month, the author discussed epidural spinal cord compression. This month he describes the incidence, clinical presentation, and management of CNS complications from intradural, extramedullary metastases; leptomeningeal carcinomatosis; intramedullary spinal cord metastasis; paraneoplastic myelopathies; radiation myelopathy, and chemo-induced myelopathy.
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Dept. of Neurology, Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin.
D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*