Surgical Techniques for the Treatment of Bone Metastases of the Spine

Textbook of Bone Metastases

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 201-214

  Capanna, Rodolpho ^a   Boriani, Stefano ^b   Gasbarrini, Alessandro ^b   Bandiera, Stefano ^b   Bròdano, Giovanni Barbanti ^b   Paderni, Stefania ^b   Terzi, Silvia ^b  

^a Centro Traumatologico Ortopedico   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Maggiori   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decompression and stabilisation; En bloc resection; Enneking staging and WBB staging; Intralesional excision and cervical spine metastases; Longitudinal midline approach; Metastatic disease and palliative surgery; Palliative posterior stabilisation; Posterior instrumentation and fusion; Tumour debulking and reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889487020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470011610.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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