Surgery followed by radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for metastatic spinal cord compression from unfavorable tumors

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Huttenlocher, Stefan ^a   Bajrovic, Amira ^b   Karstens, Johann H ^c   Adamietz, Irenaeus A ^d   Kazic, Nadja ^e   Rudat, Volker ^f   Schild, Steven E ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^f SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Metastatic spinal cord compression; Radiotherapy; Surgery; treatment outcome; Unfavorable tumors

Indexed keywords

LOCAL CONTROL; METASTATIC SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; MOTOR FUNCTION; POST TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY ALONE; RANDOMIZED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DOSIMETRY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTATIC SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LAMINECTOMY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 80053096462     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.11.056     Document Type: Article

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