Neurological outcome of treatment for patients with impending paralysis due to epidural spinal cord compression by metastatic spinal tumor

Abstract Background Therapeutic intervention has recently been actively performed for metastatic spine tumor even though spinal cord paralysis is not clearly observed, but there has been no report in which the degree of spinal cord compression by tumor was taken into consideration for the paralysis-...

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Main Authors: Masafumi Maseda, Hiroshi Uei, Masahiro Nakahashi, Hirokatsu Sawada, Yasuaki Tokuhashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13018-019-1348-x