Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression: Update on Management

Seminars in Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 307-311

  Byrne, Thomas N ^a   Borges, Lawrence F ^b   Loeffler, Jay S ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; META ANALYSIS; METASTATIC SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEAKNESS;

EPIDURAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33744906500     PISSN: 00937754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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