Surgical Treatment of Extradural Spinal Cord Compression Due to Metastatic Tumours

Overview

Journal Acta Neurochir (Wien)

Specialty Neurosurgery

Date 1991 Jan 1

PMID 1927619

Citations 4

Authors

M CORADDU

G C Nurchi

F Floris

V Meleddu

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Abstract

The authors present a group of 23 patients with extradural spinal metastases who had undergone surgical treatment with different approaches, with reference to the anatomical site of the tumours. They report the results and discuss the criteria of the different surgical technical choices.

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