Validation and simplification of a score predicting survival in patients irradiated for metastatic spinal cord compression.

  • Dirk Rades
  • Sarah Douglas
  • Theo Veninga
  • Lukas J A Stalpers
  • Peter J Hoskin
  • Amira Bajrovic
  • Irenaeus A Adamietz
  • Hiba Basic
  • Juergen Dunst
  • Steven E Schild

Abstract

Based on an analysis of 1852 retrospectively evaluated patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC), a scoring system was developed to predict survival. This study was performed to validate the scoring system in a new data set.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number15
ISSN0008-543X
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 20564129