This contribution presents an approach to the diagnosis of symptoms referable to spinal pathology in patients with known malignancy. Pain and neurological disturbance are distressing and disabling symptoms, which in patients with cancer may be a result of bony metastases, paraspinal soft tissue disease and meningeal and intra-axial spinal metastases. Imaging studies are pivotal, and typical and atypical imaging features are presented.

Author

David MacVicar

Contact Details

Corresponding address:
Dr David MacVicar, FRCP, FRCR,
Consultant Radiologist,
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust,
Downs Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5PT, UK

Reference

ICIS Cancer Imaging Volume 6 Special Issue A
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2006.9002

Date Posted

31 October 2006

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