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Hormonal treatment of symptomatic spinal cord compression in advanced prostatic cancer
I Sasagawa1, H Gotoh, H Miyabayashi
1Department of Urology, Saiseikai Fukushima General Hospital, Japan.
International Urology and Nephrology
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The authors describe 2 cases of symptomatic spinal cord compression due to metastatic prostatic cancer. Both cases showed marked improvement of cord compression after hormone therapy, and decompressive laminectomy was not necessary. The management of prostatic cancer patients with symptomatic spinal cord compression is discussed.