Prognostic relevance of clinical symptoms in patients with spinal metastases

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 436, Issue , 2005, Pages 196-201

  Hosono, Noboru ^a   Ueda, Takafumi ^a   Tamura, Daisuke ^a   Aoki, Yasuaki ^b   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HIMEJI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYELOMA; PAIN; PARESIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SYMPTOM; THYROID CANCER;

EID: 21844457185     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000160003.70673.2a     Document Type: Article

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