Is surgery for spine metastasis reasonable in patients older than 60 years? Spine

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 471, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 628-639

  Liang, Tangzhao ^a   Wan, Yong ^a   Zou, Xuenong ^a   Peng, Xinsheng ^a   Liu, Shaoyu ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREDICTION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOKUHASHI SCORE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878230826     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2699-3     Document Type: Article

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