Complication Avoidance in Vertebral Column Spine Tumors

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 317-329

  Bilsky, Mark H ^a,b   Fraser, Justin F ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENOXAPARIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; STEROID; TINZAPARIN; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LAMINECTOMY; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33746195559     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2006.04.007     Document Type: Review

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