Metastases to the craniovertebral junction

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages

  Moulding, Hugh D ^a   Bilsky, Mark H ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial; Cervical spine; Craniovertebral junction; Metastatic spine tumor; Occiput

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

BONE BIOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE METASTASIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION METASTASIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LAMINECTOMY; LYMPHOMA; MEDLINE; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEURALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CERVICAL ATLAS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; LAMINECTOMY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OCCIPITAL BONE; RADIOTHERAPY; SKULL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77649168799     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000365829.97078.B2     Document Type: Review

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