Solitary Vertebral Metastasis

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-154

  Sciubba, Daniel M ^a   Nguyen, Trang ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metastasis; Solitary; Spine; Treatment; Tumor

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KYPHOPLASTY; LUNG CANCER; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SPINE METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOSURGERY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 57049151388     PISSN: 00305898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocl.2008.09.003     Document Type: Review

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