Surgery followed by radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for metastatic spinal cord compression from unfavorable tumors.

  • Dirk Rades
  • Stefan Huttenlocher
  • Amira Bajrovic
  • Johann H Karstens
  • Irenaeus A Adamietz
  • Nadja Kazic
  • Volker Rudat
  • Steven E Schild

Abstract

Despite a previously published randomized trial, controversy exists regarding the benefit of adding surgery to radiotherapy for metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC). It is thought that patients with MSCC from relatively radioresistant tumors or tumors associated with poor functional outcome after radiotherapy alone may benefit from surgery. This study focuses on these tumors.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer5
ISSN0360-3016
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2011
pubmed 21277114