Spinal and meningeal metastatic disease
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This contribution presents an approach to diagnosis in patients known to have malignant disease, who present with neurological symptoms and signs which may be a result of epidural spinal cord compression or intradural spinal disease.
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دوره 2 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2002