A Score Predicting Posttreatment Ambulatory Status in Patients Irradiated for Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 905-908

  Rades, Dirk ^a,b   Rudat, Volker ^b,c   Veninga, Theo ^d   Stalpers, Lukas J A ^e   Basic, Hiba ^f   Karstens, Johann H ^g   Hoskin, Peter J ^h   Schild, Steven E ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f University of East Sarajevo   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^g HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^h MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory status; Metastatic spinal cord compression; Prognostic factors; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; DECISION MAKING; DOSIMETRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

AMBULATORY STATUS; METASTATIC SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; SCORING SYSTEM;

MOTORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

AGE FACTORS; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; WALKING;

EID: 53149138971     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.02.018     Document Type: Article

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