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Total vertebrectomy for en bloc resection of lung cancer invading the spine
D Grunenwald1, C Mazel, P Girard
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris Choisy, Paris, France.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
We describe a technique of total vertebrectomy for en bloc resection of a non-small cell lung cancer with vertebral invasion through a combination of thoracic and enlarged posterior approaches, and present our entire experience of total and partial vertebrectomy for tumors invading vertebral bodies or the costovertebral angle.