Symptoms and signs in metastatic spinal cord compression: a study of progression from first symptom until diagnosis in 153 patients
| Autor: | Per Soelberg Sørensen, Susanne Helweg-Larsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
musculoskeletal diseases
Adult Male Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Weakness Time Factors Cauda Equina Central nervous system disease Lumbar Spinal cord compression Paralysis medicine Humans Spinal Cord Neoplasms Gait Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Nerve Compression Syndromes Urinary Bladder Diseases Cauda equina Middle Aged medicine.disease Spinal cord Surgery Paresis medicine.anatomical_structure Oncology Radicular pain Back Pain Female medicine.symptom business Spinal Nerve Roots Spinal Cord Compression |
| Zdroj: | European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990). (3) |
| ISSN: | 0959-8049 |
| Popis: | The symptoms in metastatic compression of the spinal cord or cauda equine are described after a systematic recording of the sequence of symptoms in 153 patients. Radicular pain was predominant in patients with metastases located in the lumbar area, while the severity of motor symptoms was positively correlated with thoracic metastases. The most common initial symptom was radicular pain, followed, with decreasing frequency, by motor weakness, sensory complaints and bladder dysfunction. The progression of motor weakness influenced the probability of establishing the diagnosis of spinal cord compression by stepwise marked increased probability when patients lost gait function or progressed into total paralysis. |
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