Post-laminectomy long-term survival of a patient with spinal cord compression secondary to metastatic prostate cancer.
Spinal cord compression is a skeletal-related event in advanced malignancies and is associated with serious morbidity and poor prognosis. Despite the palliative nature of laminectomy treatment, it is important to prevent neurological deficits and relieve pain as a means to improve quality of life. Here we report on a prostate cancer patient with spinal cord compression who became ambulant from paraparesis after he underwent a decompression laminectomy; he survived for 9.5 years with good quality of life.
Saito
Seiichi
S
Department of Urology, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan. ssaito@uro.med.tohoku.ac.jp
Hoshi
Senji
S
Sakai
Kiyohide
K
Chiba
Yutaka
Y
Saito
Hideo
H
Hatori
Masahito
M
Endoh
Mareyuki
M
Arai
Yoichi
Y
D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020335:Paraparesis / Q000209:etiology; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D011788:Quality of Life; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology*; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016138:Walking