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How would you manage an epidural spinal metastasis causing cord compression from rhabdomyosarcoma?

Would you treat with focal or CSI radiation?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Arizona
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Leptomeningeal spread of rhabdomyosarcoma could result from the dissemination of tumor cells in the CSF by direct extension or by malignant cells growing along blood vessels or nerve sheaths. I would first get a total spine and a brain MRI to assess where there is gross disease present in other part...

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