Immediate Response to Chemotherapy in an Adult Neuroblastoma Patient Presenting with Cord Compression

We report a case of a 31-year-old female patient with high-risk neuroblastoma (NBL) who presented with a history of static back pain and bilateral lower limb weakness for almost a month. Her primary tumor was located in the right paraspinal region, causing spinal cord compression (SCC). Chemotherapy...

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Autores principales: Bukhari, Nedal, Harfouch, Bachar, Alotaibi, Majid Shallal, Al-Harbi, Hulayel, Chamdine, Omar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7049824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32148983
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6401497
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author Bukhari, Nedal
Harfouch, Bachar
Alotaibi, Majid Shallal
Al-Harbi, Hulayel
Chamdine, Omar
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Harfouch, Bachar
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Al-Harbi, Hulayel
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description We report a case of a 31-year-old female patient with high-risk neuroblastoma (NBL) who presented with a history of static back pain and bilateral lower limb weakness for almost a month. Her primary tumor was located in the right paraspinal region, causing spinal cord compression (SCC). Chemotherapy was administered with an immediate clinical improvement noted after 24 hours of starting treatment. We herein report the efficacy of chemotherapy in an adult neuroblastoma (aNBL) patient presenting with spinal cord compression.
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spelling pubmed-70498242020-03-06 Immediate Response to Chemotherapy in an Adult Neuroblastoma Patient Presenting with Cord Compression Bukhari, Nedal Harfouch, Bachar Alotaibi, Majid Shallal Al-Harbi, Hulayel Chamdine, Omar Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report We report a case of a 31-year-old female patient with high-risk neuroblastoma (NBL) who presented with a history of static back pain and bilateral lower limb weakness for almost a month. Her primary tumor was located in the right paraspinal region, causing spinal cord compression (SCC). Chemotherapy was administered with an immediate clinical improvement noted after 24 hours of starting treatment. We herein report the efficacy of chemotherapy in an adult neuroblastoma (aNBL) patient presenting with spinal cord compression. Hindawi 2020-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7049824/ /pubmed/32148983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6401497 Text en Copyright © 2020 Nedal Bukhari et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort immediate response to chemotherapy in an adult neuroblastoma patient presenting with cord compression
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7049824/
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