Spinal metastases as the cause of acute and sub-acute transverse spinal cord paralysis

Kretschmer, H

doi:10.1007/bf01646737

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“…1 ± 3 Female genital lesions including uterine and ovarian lesions play a minor role for metastases in the spinal extradural region. 2,4 The metastases usually occur via the paravertebral and extradural venous plexus, or by direct invasion. The eects of such extradural lesions are mainly vascular obstruction, extravasation, neural oedema, medullary ischaemia and infarction.…”

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Metastatic choriocarcinoma in the thoracic extradural space: case report

1998

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A case is reported of a 44-year-old woman with metastatic choriocarcinoma of the thoracic extradural space causing paraplegia. Spinal cord compression due to an extradural deposit is an emergency in neurosurgical practice. The majority of these lesions are metastatic. To our knowledge choriocarcinoma metastases and extradural cord compression in the spinal canal is the ®rst case reported in the neurosurgical literature.

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