Accuracy of the revised Tokuhashi score in predicting survival in patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)

European Spine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Quraishi, N A ^a   Manoharan, S R ^a   Arealis, G ^a   Khurana, A ^a   Elsayed, S ^a   Edwards, K L ^b   Boszczyk, B M ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metastatic spinal cord compression; Revised Tokuhashi score

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; METASTATIC SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; SARCOMA; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL TIME; TOKUHASHI SCORE; VERTEBRECTOMY; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882936428     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-012-2649-5     Document Type: Article

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