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Small cell cancer of the cervix presenting as compression of the spinal cord and cauda equina
F L Ampil1, G V Burton, F Abreo
1Department of Radiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 71130, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|April 1, 1998
Abstract:
Spinal cord or cauda equina compression by metastatic cancer usually occurs months or even years after the diagnosis of the primary tumor. We describe the unusual simultaneous presentation of small cell cancer of the cervix and metastatic tumor compressing the spinal cord and cauda equina.