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Embolization of metastatic spinal tumors
Oren N Gottfried1, Peter E Schloesser, Meic H Schmidt
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah Medical Center, 30 North 1900 East, Suite 3B409, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA. Oren.Gottfried@hsc.utah.edu
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America
|September 29, 2004
Abstract:
Embolization is a safe and valuable primary and adjunctive treatment option for metastatic spinal tumors. Close consultation between the neurosurgeon, the oncologist, the radiation oncologist, and the interventionalist should lead to more applications of embolization techniques,thereby enhancing the treatment of metastatic spinal lesions. The development of newer embolic agents with chemotherapeutic properties should add to the efficacy of embolization for metastatic spinal disease.