Interventions for the treatment of metastatic extradural spinal cord compression in adults

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  George, Reena ^a   Jeba, Jenifer ^a   Ramkumar, Govindaraj ^b   Chacko, Ari G ^a   Tharyan, Prathap ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANALGESIA; BLADDER FUNCTION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEATH; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LAMINECTOMY; METASTATIC EXTRADURAL SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; STOMACH ULCER; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE; AGED; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; SECONDARY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; WALKING;

EID: 84964695647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006716.pub3     Document Type: Review

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