Local spread of metastatic vertebral tumors: A histologic study

Spine

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1905-1912

  Fujita, Takuya ^a   Ueda, Yoshimichi ^a   Kawahara, Norio ^a   Baba, Hisatoshi ^b   Tomita, Katsuro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrier; Compartment; Local extension; Metastatic vertebral tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SPINE TUMOR; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0031419095     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199708150-00020     Document Type: Article

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