Surgical treatment strategies and outcome in patients with breast cancer metastatic to the spine: A review of 87 patients

European Spine Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1179-1192

  Shehadi, Joseph A ^b   Sciubba, Daniel M ^a   Suk, Ian ^a   Suki, Dima ^b   Maldaun, Marcos V C ^b   McCutcheon, Ian E ^b   Nader, Remi ^b   Theriault, Richard ^b   Rhines, Laurence D ^b   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Estrogen; Metastases; Prognosis; Spine surgery

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36148989142     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-007-0357-3     Document Type: Article

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