Initial experience with the use of an expandable titanium cage as a vertebral body replacement in patients with tumors of the spinal column: A report of 95 patients

European Spine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-92

  Viswanathan, Ashwin ^a   Abd El Barr, Muhammad M ^a   Doppenberg, Egon ^b   Suki, Dima ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya ^c   Mendel, Ehud ^d   Rao, Ganesh ^a   Rhines, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expandable titanium cage; Metastatic spine tumor; Reconstruction; Spine; Tumor; Vertebrectomy

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BONE PROSTHESIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EXPANDABLE TITANIUM CAGE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTHESIS MIGRATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862890643     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-011-1882-7     Document Type: Review

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