Surgical management of primary and metastatic sarcoma of the mobile spine

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-128

  Rao, Ganesh ^a   Suki, Dima ^a   Chakrabarti, Indro ^a   Feiz Erfan, Iman ^a   Mody, Milan G ^a   McCutcheon, Ian E ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya ^b   Patel, Shreyaskumar ^a   Rhines, Laurence D ^a  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chondrosarcoma; Histology; Metastasis; Sarcoma; Spine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHONDROSARCOMA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOSARCOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; RATING SCALE; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE CANCER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52449087795     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/SPI/2008/9/8/120     Document Type: Article

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