Surgery followed by radiotherapy for the treatment of metastatic epidural spinal cord compression from breast cancer

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Tancioni, Flavio ^a   Navarria, Pierina ^a   Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Pedrazzoli, Paolo ^a   Morenghi, Emanuela ^a   Santoro, Armando ^a   Baena, Riccardo Rodriquez Y ^a   Scorsetti, Marta ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

breast cancer; metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC); radiotherapy; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FRANKEL SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTATIC EPIDURAL SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052650664     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318207a222     Document Type: Article

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