Emergency radiation therapy ( usually 20 Gray in 5 fractions, 30 Gray in 10 fractions or 8 Gray in 1 fraction ) is the mainstay of treatment for malignant spinal cord compression.
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Spinal cord compressions are also possible with patients experiencing pain, rigidity and neurologic signs that may follow some distance along nerves to cause symptoms at some distance from the location of the retrolisthesis.
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In a second project, he investigated with the rhesus monkey normothermic perfusion as a therapeutic means with spinal cord compression, and as a third project the alterations of the auditory evoked potentials under respiratory stress.
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Patients who were given 120 mg of denosumab ( in comparison to those who were given 4 mg of zoledronic acid ) show an greater increase in hypocalcemia, a greater resistance to bone turnover markers uNTx, a delay response in both pathological fractures and spinal cord compression.
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Some authorities believe that withdrawal of fluid when initial pressures are abnormal could result in spinal cord compression or cerebral herniation; others believe that such events are merely coincidental in time, occurring independently as a result of the same pathology that the lumbar puncture was performed to diagnose.
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Rare but characteristic presentations include transverse myelopathy ( tumor spinal cord compression, 5 % of cases ), treatment-resistant diarrhea ( tumor vasoactive intestinal peptide secretion, 4 % of cases ), Horner's syndrome ( cervical tumor, 2.4 % of cases ), opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome and ataxia ( suspected paraneoplastic cause, 1.3 % of cases ), and hypertension ( catecholamine secretion or renal artery compression, 1.3 % of cases ).
