Posterior decompression and stabilization for metastatic compression of the thoracic spinal cord: Is this procedure still state of the art?

Spinal Cord

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 595-602

  Abel, R ^a,b   Keil, M ^a   Schlager E ^a   Akbar, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SCI Unit   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decompression; Spinal cord injury; Spinal metastasis; Stabilization; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51349161020     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2008.11     Document Type: Article

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