Clinical outcome and survival after palliative surgery for spinal metastases: Palliative surgery in spinal metastases

Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 476-484

  Hirabayashi, Hiroki ^a   Ebara, Sohei ^a   Kinoshita, Tetsuya ^a   Yuzawa, Yohei ^a   Nakamura, Isao ^a   Takahashi, Jun ^a   Kamimura, Mikio ^a   Ohtsuka, Kuniyoshi ^a   Takaoka, Kunio ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulation; Metastatic spinal tumor; Palliative surgical treatment; Quality of life (QOL); Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINE METASTASIS; SURVIVAL TIME; WALKING;

EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037439357     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11039     Document Type: Article

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