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[Metastases of the spinal canal--clinical aspects and surgical results]
A Gräwe1, W D Siedschlag, G Nisch
1Neurochirurgischen Klinik, Klinikums Berlin-Buch.
Zentralblatt Fur Neurochirurgie
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
48 patients (31 men, 17 women) were operated on because of a metastic tumour of the spinal canal. The average age at the time of operation being 53 years. After a mean duration of the disease of 6 months 43 patients were operated on with severe transverse lesions. A primary carcinoma was known in 11 patients. After the operation an improvement was observed in 17 patients. The mortality in a period of 2 weeks after the operation was 21%, and after 8 weeks 42%.