Related Experiment Videos
Neuroblastoma producing spinal cord compression: rapid relief with low dose of radiation
N P Nguyen1, S Sallah, A Ludin
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Southwestern University School of Medicine, VA North Texas Health Care System, 4500 S Lancaster Road, Dallas, TX 75216, USA. NamPhong.Nguyen@med.va.gov
Anticancer Research
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
Symptomatic spinal cord compression requires emergency treatment to alleviate symptoms and to avoid irreversible damage. We describe a successful decompression by low dose radiation to a progressing neuroblastoma in a child. Magnetic resonance imaging post radiation should be performed to assess the response of the tumor to radiation.