title: Post-laminectomy long-term survival of a patient with spinal cord compression secondary to metastatic prostate cancer.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan. ssaito@uro.med.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Seiichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Senji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hoshi
authors.forename: Kiyohide
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Masahito
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hatori
authors.forename: Mareyuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Endoh
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arai
mesh_terms: 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