Management of metastatic spine disease with spinal cord compression

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-47

  Sciubba, Daniel M ^a,b   Witham, Timothy F ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Metastases; Radiation therapy; Spine; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; LAMINECTOMY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE STABILIZATION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 34247596600     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNQ.0b013e31803291cf     Document Type: Review

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