Predictors of survival after surgical treatment of spinal metastasis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 674-681

  Arrigo, Robert T ^a,c   Kalanithi, Paul ^b,c   Cheng, Ivan ^b   Alamin, Todd ^b   Carragee, Eugene J ^b   Mindea, Stefan A ^b   Park, Jongsoo ^b   Boakye, Maxwell ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Cox models; Surgical decompression; Survival analysis; Vertebral metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOBILIZATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951765857     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318207780c     Document Type: Article

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