Minimal access spinal surgery (MASS) in treating thoracic spine metastasis

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1860-1863

  Huang, Tsung Jen ^a   Hsu, Robert Wen Wei ^a   Li, Yen Yao ^a   Cheng, Chin Chang ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Minimal access spinal surgery (MASS); Neurologic deficit; Thoracic spine; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATION DURATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746067446     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000225995.56028.46     Document Type: Article

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