'Internal bracing' surgery in the management of solid tumor metastases of the thoracic and lumbar spine

Oncology Reports

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 431-435

  Di Martino, Alberto ^a   Vincenzi, Bruno ^a   Denaro, Luca ^b   Barnaba, Simona Angela ^a   Papalia, Rocco ^a   Santini, Daniele ^a   Tonini, Giuseppe ^a   Denaro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metastases; Neurological status; Quality of life; Spine surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL BRACING; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; MENINX DISORDER; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEDICLE SCREW; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REFERRED PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID TUMOR; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE METASTASIS; UTERUS CARCINOMA; BONE SCREW; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 62849115763     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or_00000241     Document Type: Article

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