title: Imaging of the spine in patients with malignancy.
abstract: This contribution presents an approach to the diagnosis of symptoms referable to spinal pathology in patients with known malignancy. Pain and neurological disturbance are distressing and disabling symptoms, which in patients with cancer may be a result of bony metastases, paraspinal soft tissue disease and meningeal and intra-axial spinal metastases. Imaging studies are pivotal, and typical and atypical imaging features are presented.
authors.affiliation: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PT, UK. david.macvicar@rmh.nhs.uk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: MacVicar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004824:Epidural Space; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals