Do vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty have an antitumoral effect?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-146

  Yang, Hui Lin ^a   Sun, Zhi Yong ^a   Wu, Gui Zhong ^a   Chen, Kang Wu ^a   Gu, Yong ^a   Qian, Zhong Lai ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

BACKACHE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LETTER; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

KYPHOPLASTY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PAIN; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 78650173541     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.09.018     Document Type: Letter

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