[Problem of the early recognition of spinal cord tumors].
Two thirds of a group of patients with 40 space-restricting processes in the region of the spinal canal were submitted to an operation in the stage of an incomplete transverse syndrome. A striking fact was that these patients had tumours of different histological classifications which were localised in the thoracic and thoraco-lumbal transitional region Tumours in the cervical and cervico-thoracic transitional region were mainly operated on in their early stages. They had a considerably shorter period of anamnesis from the beginning of the clinical symptoms up to the operation. A cause of the different periods of anamnesis with different localisations is discussed.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005910:Glioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D009188:Myelitis, Transverse / Q000209:etiology; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000209:etiology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery
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