Assessment of prognostic factors in patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC) from solid tumor after surgery plus radiotherapy: A single institution experience

European Spine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Tancioni, Flavio ^a,b   Navarria, Piera ^a   Pessina, Federico ^a   Attuati, Luca ^b   Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Alloisio, Marco ^a   Scorsetti, Marta ^a   Santoro, Armando ^a   Baena, Riccardo Rodriguez Y ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO CLINICO CITTÀ STUDI   (Italy)

Author keywords

MESCC; Metastases; Predictive factors; Spine surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SOLID TUMOR; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EPIDURAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862846054     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-012-2232-0     Document Type: Article

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