Complicated surgical resection of malignant tumors in the upper cervical spine after failed ion-beam radiation therapy

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Matsumoto, Morio ^a   Watanabe, Kota ^a   Ishii, Ken ^a   Tsuji, Takashi ^a   Takaishi, Hironari ^a   Nakamura, Masaya ^a   Toyama, Yoshiaki ^a   Chiba, Kazuhiro ^a   Imanishi, Yorihisa ^a   Kishi, Kazuo ^a   Kawana, Hiromasa ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chordoma; Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma; Ion beam radiotherapy; Mandible splitting approach; Upper cervical spine

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GELFOAM; MICROCRYSTALLINE COLLAGEN; PLATINUM; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ARM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLEEDING; BONE GRAFT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISKITIS; DYSPHASIA; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; ESOPHAGUS; FEEDING; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT INFECTION; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; ILIAC CREST; ION THERAPY; LAMINOPLASTY; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MENINGITIS; MUSCLE FLAP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PARESTHESIA; PEDICLE SCREW; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WALKING AID; WEAKNESS; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHORDOMA; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952425746     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181caa86c     Document Type: Article

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