%0 Journal Article
%T Tumoraci¨®n craneal y paraparesia de extremidades inferiores
%A Hermida-Ameijeiras
%A A.
%A Van den Eynde
%A A.
%A Reyes Sant¨ªas
%A R. M.
%J Oncolog¨ªa (Barcelona)
%D 2007
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4321/S0378-48352007000100006
%X introduction: small cell lung cancer (oat.cell carcinoma) comes up usually with respiratory symptoms and/or radiological findings. clinical case: this clinical case corresponds to a patient with a metastatic skull mass and medullary compression syndrome as a debut of an oat cell lung cancer. conclusions: a very marked suspicion is necessary for the clinical early diagnosis of small cell lung cancer with limited disease. nevertheless, cases as the one reported here manifest its aggressiveness, with a high rate of dissemination at diagnosis and a high morbimortality.
%K small cell lung cancer
%K skull metastases
%K medullary compression
%K ttf-1.
%U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0378-48352007000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en