Spinal metastases are found in most patients who die of cancer. The number of patients with symptomatic spinal metastases likely will increase as therapy for the primary disease improves and as cardiovascular mortality decreases. Understanding the epidemiology of metastatic spine disease and its presentation is essential to developing a diagnostic strategy. Treatment may involve chemotherapy, corticosteroids, radiotherapy, surgery, and/or percutaneous procedures (eg, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty). A rational treatment plan can help improve quality of life, preserve neurologic function, and prolong survival
Keywords : Breast Neoplasms,diagnosis,epidemiology,Female,Humans,Kaplan-Meier Estimate,Kidney Neoplasms,Kyphoplasty,Lumbar Vertebrae,Male,mortality,Palliative Care,pathology,Patients,Physical Examination,Prognosis,Prostatic Neoplasms,Quality of Life,radiotherapy,Rectal Neoplasms,secondary,Spinal Neoplasms,Spine,surgery,therapy,Thoracic Vertebrae,Thyroid Neoplasms,Vertebroplasty,, Disease,Thoracic, fibromyalgia doctor uk
Date of Publication : 2011 Jan
Authors : Rose PS;Buchowski JM;
Organisation : Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Journal of Publication : J Am Acad Orthop Surg
Pubmed Link : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21205766
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