Resumption of ambulatory status after surgery for nonambulatory patients with epidural spinal metastasis

Spine Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1015-1023

  Kim, Chi Heon ^a,b   Chung, Chun Kee ^a,b   Jahng, Tae Ahn ^a,b   Kim, Hyun Jib ^c  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ambulation; Epidural; Metastatic spine tumor; Paraparesis; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; COLON CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL SPINAL METASTASIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE NECROSIS; TUMOR GROWTH; WALKING DIFFICULTY; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; WALKING;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EPIDURAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; WALKING;

EID: 84865855267     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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