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Metastatic4
Epidural1
Metastases2
  • However, to our knowledge, the use of this technique to treat spinal metastases, including MESCC, has not previously been reported. (hindawi.com)
  • Growing metastases can also compress the spinal cord causing weakness in the legs and feet, or limb paralysis. (wikipedia.org)
Weakness3
  • If the nerves and/or the spinal cord are involved in the fracture, the person may also experience bladder or bowel dysfunction, tingling, weakness in the limbs and numbness. (stvincenthospital.com)
  • Symptoms of CES include severe low back pain, motor weakness, pain in one or both legs, sensory loss, inability to feel anything in body parts that sit on a saddle, urinary or bowel incontinence, sensory abnormalities in the bladder or rectum and loss of reflexes in the extremities. (stvincenthospital.com)
  • Aside from severe back pain, the symptoms of this condition include fever, chills, weight loss, urination difficulties, muscle spasms, bowl and/or bladder incontinence and weakness and/or numbness of the legs or arms. (stvincenthospital.com)
Occurs3
  • CES occurs due to spinal nerve compression which also disturbs the sensory and motor function of the bladder and lower extremities. (stvincenthospital.com)
  • This phenomenon occurs when the cancer cells have spread to the spinal cord. (onco.com)
  • SVCS occurs in response to mechanical obstruction of the SVC due to external compression, tumor invasion into the vessel, or internal obstruction. (your-doctor.net)
Cause severe bone1
  • This type of cancer can cause severe bone thinning which causes extreme damage to the bones leading to fractures. (onco.com)
Paralysis1
Tumor1
  • This patient was treated with image-guided 3DCRT (IG-3DCRT) alone using a FIF technique and a unique hypofractionated dose fractionation scheme, which resulted in good tumor control and sufficient cord decompression, which in turn allowed a delayed but gradual improvement in her severe neurological dysfunction. (hindawi.com)
Symptoms2
  • One of its initial symptoms is severe back pain that gets worse with movement. (stvincenthospital.com)
  • One of its symptoms is severe back or neck pain that may worsen when you sneeze, lie down, cough, go to the toilet or lift. (stvincenthospital.com)
Pain3
  • The severe case of a herniated disk is a medical emergency because of intolerable pain and discomfort. (stvincenthospital.com)
  • Here, we describe the case of a mid-octogenarian who presented with severe pain and nonambulatory quadriparesis attributable to MESCC at the fifth cervical vertebra, which developed 10 months after the diagnosis of undifferentiated carcinoma of the gallbladder. (hindawi.com)
  • Here, we describe the case of a mid-octogenarian who presented with severe pain and nonambulatory tetraparesis attributable to acute MESCC from gallbladder carcinoma. (hindawi.com)
Spread3
  • It happens when the cancer cells spread in or near the spine and press onto the spinal cord. (stvincenthospital.com)
  • Vertebral osteomyelitis is the most common kind of spinal infection which can be caused by spinal trauma and/or bacterial or fungal infection that spread from the blood. (stvincenthospital.com)
  • The risk of developing MSCC is high when the cancer has spread to the bones. (onco.com)
Metastatic spinal15
Malignant spinal cord compre2
Radiotherapy alone2
  • This retrospective study was performed to identify prognostic factors for functional outcome, local control of MSCC, and survival in 175 of such patients treated with radiotherapy alone. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Today the most common treatment modality used for MSCC is radiotherapy alone. (biomedcentral.com)
Tumour2
  • Ruggieri R, Naccarato S and Nahum AE, Severe hypofractionation: the usefulness of non-homogeneous tumour dose delivery in counteracting tumour hypoxia, Acta Oncologica (Special Issue on "Edmonton TCP workshop"), 49 1304-14 2010. (clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk)
  • Mr Desai has developed specialist spinal Rehabilitation services, at London SCIC for MSCC/ Spinal Tumour patients, SCI with Polytrauma and for Cauda Equina Syndrome. (cromwellhospital.com)
Prognostic Factors2
  • This study identified additional independent prognostic factors for functional outcome, local control of MSCC, and survival after radiotherapy of MSCC from cancer of unknown primary. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study aimed to identify independent prognostic factors for different endpoints including functional outcome, local control of MSCC, and survival in the largest series of patients with MSCC from cancer of unknown primary reported so far, in order to contribute to the personalization of the treatment of these patients. (biomedcentral.com)
Metastases6
  • An improvement of local control of MSCC was associated with the absence of visceral metastases at the time of radiotherapy (p = 0.001) in the univariate analysis. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 25. Relationship Between Visceral Metastases and Survival in Patients with Metastasis-related Spinal Cord Compression. (nih.gov)
  • The prediction of survival plays a key role in choosing therapeutic modality, and Tokuhashi Score was established as one of the most commonly used predictive systems for spinal metastases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Factors were all proved to be significant except comparisons between KPS (Karnofsky Performance Status) 10-40 VS. 50-70 and single VS. multiple spinal metastases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • All factors of RTS were significant on prognosis predicting and should be considered when choosing therapeutic modality for spinal metastases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Growing metastases can also compress the spinal cord causing weakness in the legs and feet, or limb paralysis. (wikipedia.org)
Patients6
  • Personalization of treatment can be facilitated if patients with MSCC from a particular type of primary tumor are regarded as a separate group of patients. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patients with MSCC from cancer of unknown primary demand particular attention, because they have a very poor survival prognosis when compared to patients with MSCC from other tumors [ 1 , 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Furthermore, these patients are relatively common and account for about 10% of all patients developing MSCC. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 29. Preexisting severe cervical spinal cord compression is a significant risk factor for severe paralysis development in patients with traumatic cervical spinal cord injury without bone injury: a retrospective cohort study. (nih.gov)
  • Managing complex spasticity, spinal/neuropathic pain, MSK conditions in long term wheelchair users, shoulder dysfunction in wheelchair users, Tetraplegia hand reconstruction and Bariatric interventions in SCI with a very high BMI (>30.0) He regularly undertake Botox Injections, Intra-articular MSK interventions, including trigger point injections and Intra-thecal Baclofen test dose for severe spasticity in SCI patients. (cromwellhospital.com)
  • Annually he reviews approximately 550-600 complex spinal injuries patients on an outpatient basis, and at a given time has a minimum of 13 inpatients with complex spinal injuries under his care for specialist rehabilitation at The London SCIC, The Wellington Hospital and RBH. (cromwellhospital.com)
Injury4
Cancer1