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Head and Neck Cancers
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Radiation Oncology
How do you manage a patient who develops Lhermitte's sign?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Reassuring the patient as usually it is self limiting short lasting condition from transient changes in the cord
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Radiation Oncologist at Bassett Healthcare
I order an MRI as well as reassure.
Radiation Oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital at Emerson Hospital
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I order an MRI as well as reassure.
If the time patterns makes sense, I reassure. If ...