Palliative surgery for metastatic thoracic and lumbar tumors using posterolateral transpedicular approach with posterior instrumentation

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 424-433

  Cho, Dae Chul ^a   Sung, Joo Kyung ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Palliative surgery; Posterior instrumentation; Posterolateral transpedicular approach; Spinal metastasis; Thoracic and lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC CAVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACK PAIN; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62749129842     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.02.049     Document Type: Article

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