Surgery followed by radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for metastatic spinal cord compression from unfavorable tumors.
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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.
Bibliographical data
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5 |
| ISSN | 0360-3016 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| pubmed | 21277114 |
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