Surgical Approach to Epidural Spinal Cord Compression

Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1307-1317

  Bilsky, Mark ^a,b   Smith, Michelle ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDURAL SPACE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PHOTON THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE INSTABILITY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750961055     PISSN: 08898588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hoc.2006.09.009     Document Type: Review

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