Ibarra-de la Torre A, Aguilar-López R, García-Benitez C, Silva-Morales F, Acha-Herrera RE

Language: Spanish
References: 8
Page: 183-185
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ABSTRACT

As many as 30% of all cancer patients develop secondary spinal tumors that rise pain, neurological deficit and sphincter dysfunction. The prostate carcinoma develop commonly metastasizes to the skull and vertebrae. We presented a patient that initially he had neurological disease of inferior motor neuron and progress with disease of superior motor neuron. We make diagnosis of metastasis to craneo-spinal and thoracic extradural spinal, by cranial tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and electrophysiological studies. Only we made resection of the thoracic spinal lesion and he improvement of his neurological deficit.

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