Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic Of Iran
مجله پزشکی جمهوری اسلامی ایران
Med J Islam Repub Iran
Medical Sciences
http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir
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NEOPLASTIC CAUSES OF SPINAL CORD AND CAUDA EQUINA COMPRESSION IN ADULTS: PATHOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL FEATURES
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
Original Research
Original Research
This presentation analyses the histological types, relative incidences,
age, sex and anatomical distributions of one hundred and seventy-nine
biopsy proven tumors of the spinal canal from a general hospital in Iran.
Particular attention is paid to differences in the relative incidence of these
tumors compared with that in various published reports and the statistics
from several eastern countries are compared with those from the West.
In the patients studied, secondary tumors were the most frequent causes
of spinal cord and cauda equina compression (39.6%), followed by nerve
sheath cell tumors (24.5%), meningiomas (20%) and neuroepithelial tumors
(10%). Among the secondary tumors, the most common metastatic tumor
was the lymphoma and the most common vertebral column neoplasm was the
myeloma, each accounting for 8.9% of the entire series, an unusually high
proportion for the myeloma.
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MOHAMMAD R.
ARDEHALI
20031947532846006547
20031947532846006547
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From the Department of Neurological Surgery, Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Shiraz. Islamic Republic of lran.