Intracavitary carmustine polymer implantation as an adjunct to palliative metastatic vertebral column tumors

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 553-

  Chopko, Bohdan W ^a  

^a Mid Ohio Neurosurgical Care Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARMUSTINE; POLYMER;

BRAIN FUNCTION; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; LETTER; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY TUMOR; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE METASTASIS; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; CARMUSTINE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PALLIATIVE CARE; POLYMERS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71049175378     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.12.015     Document Type: Letter

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