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Decompression of epidural metastases from germ cell tumors with chemotherapy
K Cooper1, D Bajorin, W Shapiro
1Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Journal of Neuro-Oncology
|June 1, 1990
Abstract:
Epidural cord compression from germ cell tumor metastases is not common. Treatment usually requires high dose corticosteroids with radiation therapy and/or surgical decompression. Three patients with epidural germ cell tumor metastases were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy and all three had complete neurologic recovery. Systemic chemotherapy should be considered as initial therapy with corticosteroids for epidural cord compression from metastatic germ cell tumor.