Tokuhashi prognosis score: An important tool in prediction of the neurological outcome in metastatic spinal cord compression?: A retrospective clinical study

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2669-2674

  Putz, Cornelia ^a   Wiedenhöfer, Bernd ^a   Gerner, Hans Jürgen ^a   Fürstenberg, Carl Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASIA; Paraplegia; Spinal cord compression; Tetraplegia; Tokuhashi score; Vertebral metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; TOKUHASHI PROGNOSIS SCORE; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPENDENT AMBULATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PARAPLEGIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58949103530     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318188b98f     Document Type: Article

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