Malignant cord compression: A critical appraisal of prognostic factors predicting functional outcome after surgical treatment

Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 67-73

  Putz, Cornelia ^a   Van Middendorp, Joost J ^b   Pouw, Martin H ^b   Moradi, Babak ^a   Rüpp, Rüdiger ^a   Weidner, Norbert ^a   Fürstenberg, Carl Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional outcome; metastatic spinal cord compression; prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; MOBILIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD CANCER; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 79953232048     PISSN: 09748237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-8237.77670     Document Type: Review

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