- Record: found
- Abstract: found
- Article: not found
Direct decompressive surgical resection in the treatment of spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer: a randomised trial.
Roy A Patchell
1 ,
Phillip A Tibbs ,
William F Regine ,
Richard Payne ,
Stephen Saris ,
Richard J Kryscio ,
Mohammed Mohiuddin ,
Byron Young
August 23 2005
There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Abstract
The standard treatment for spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer is corticosteroids and radiotherapy. The role of surgery has not been established. We assessed the efficacy of direct decompressive surgery.