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When offering palliative radiation for spinal cord compression, do you ever "open up the field" if there is evidence of leptomeningeal disease on MRI?

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Radiation Oncology · Wake Forest School of Medicine

Considering the urgency of the situation and the poor prognosis associated with LMD, my approach is to treat the area causing cord compression. I would treat the offending area of the spine, often using a "one vert body above and below" margin on the gross disease causing the symptoms that I intend ...

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