title: Successful removal of solitary intramedullary spinal cord metastasis from colon cancer.
abstract: A 69-year-old patient with an intramedullary metastasis from colon carcinoma is presented. Total removal of the tumor brought him 3 months of useful life. Although radiation therapy is generally favored, one should consider microsurgical resection of discrete, solitary intramedullary metastases in patients with radioresistant primary tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, 911-1 Takebayashi-machi, Ustunomiya, Tochigi 321-0974, Japan. oginom@dokkyomed.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogino
authors.forename: Ryo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakatsukasa
authors.forename: Ikuro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Murase
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome