Myelopathies in the cancer patient: incidence, presentation, diagnosis and management.

Last month, the author discussed epidural spinal cord compression. This month he describes the incidence, clinical presentation, and management of CNS complications from intradural, extramedullary metastases; leptomeningeal carcinomatosis; intramedullary spinal cord metastasis; paraneoplastic myelopathies; radiation myelopathy, and chemo-induced myelopathy.