Transpedicular partial corpectomy without anterior vertebral reconstruction in thoracic spinal metastases

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Yen Jen ^a,b   Hsu, Horng Chaung ^a   Chen, Kun Hui ^b   Li, Tsai Chung ^a   Lee, Tu Sheng ^b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior vertebral reconstruction; Implant failure; Posterolateral transpedicular approach; Spinal metastasis; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SPINAL METASTASIS; TRANSPEDICULAR PARTIAL CORPECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349061705     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181573eea     Document Type: Article

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