Minimally invasive treatments for spinal metastases: Vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, and radiofrequency ablation

Journal of Supportive Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-351

  Halpin, Ryan J ^a   Bendok, Bernard R ^a   Liu, John C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BONE CEMENT; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

BACKACHE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRONCHOSPASM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DISKITIS; EXTRAVASATION; FAT EMBOLISM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEURITIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BACK PAIN; CATHETER ABLATION; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 6944243853     PISSN: 15446794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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