Spinal Cord Compression in Patients With Advanced Metastatic Cancer Janet L. Abrahm, MD Michael B. Banffy, MD Mitchel B. Harris, MD JAMA. 2008;299(8):937-946 www.jama.com As 1 of the 12 700 US cancer patients who, each year, de- velops metastatic spinal cord compression, Ms H wishes to walk and live her life. Sadly, this wish may [...]

Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression _ Review John S Cole, Roy A Patchell Lancet Neurol 2008; 7: 459–66, may 20008 Department of Neurosurgery (JS Cole MD); and Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery (RA Patchell MD), University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, USA Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC) occurs when cancer metastasises to the [...]

É com muito orgulho que, em nome do 35º Congresso Latino-americano de Neurocirurgia – CLAN 2012, convido os neurocirurgiões de todo o mundo a participarem deste evento que se realizará de 31de março a 5 de abril de 2012 no Rio de Janeiro. O tema principal do evento será A Tecnologia e o Futuro, o qual [...]