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Spinal Metastases

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Spinal cord dysfunction is a devastating complication of systemic cancer. This chapter focuses on the two most common ways in which cancer directly affects the spinal cord: epidural spinal cord compression and intramedullary spinal cord metastasis. Less common causes of spinal cord disease are covered in detail in other chapters, including radiation myelopathy in Chapter 14, paraneoplastic disorders in Chapter 13, and leptomeningeal metastases in Chapter 10.

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Schiff, D. (2003). Spinal Metastases. In: Schiff, D., Wen, P.Y. (eds) Cancer Neurology in Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-317-0_9

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