Anatomic distribution of metastases in the vertebral body and modes of hematogenous spread

Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2243-2250

  Yuh, William T C ^a,b   Quets, Jerome P ^a   Lee, Han J ^a   Simonson, Tereasa M ^a   Michalson, Linda S ^a   Nguyen, Phan T ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^a   Mayr, Nina A ^a   Berbaum, Kevin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

arterial spread; metastases; spine; venous spread; vertebral body

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE;

EID: 0029840986     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199610010-00012     Document Type: Article

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