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Paraplegia in Childhood Malignant Disease
Author(s) -
KEIDAN S. E.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1967.tb15285.x
Subject(s) - medicine , paraplegia , spinal cord , sarcoma , abdomen , spinal cord neoplasm , surgery , disease , pathology , psychiatry
Summary 1. Five cases of paraplegia due to secondary malignant disease in children are described. 2. There was one case of generalized lymphosarcoma; one case of acute leukaemia who had recurrent neurological complications, paraplegia developing terminally; one case of metastatic Wilm's tumour; one case of Ewing's sarcoma; and one case in which the histological diagnosis was not confirmed, but was probably lymphosarcoma. 3. Tumours of the spinal cord and appendages are uncommon in children and are more often primary than secondary. 4. Spread to the spinal canal may be by direct extension from the abdomen or vertebrae or by blood‐borne metastases. 5. The management of paraplegia includes care of the bladder, the bowels and of the skin.