Patients with cervical metastasis and neoplastic pachymeningitis are less likely to improve neurologically after surgery

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 708-714

  Denaro, Vincenzo ^a   Di Martino, Alberto ^a   Papalia, Rocco ^a   Denaro, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE SCREW; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MOBILIZATION; PACHYMENINGITIS; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL CARCINOMATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953008473     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1617-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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