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The Effect of Perioperative Radiation Therapy on Spinal Bone Fusion Following Spine Tumor Surgery

INTRODUCTION: Perioperative irradiation is often combined with spine tumor surgery. Radiation is known to be detrimental to healing process of bone fusion. We tried to investigate bone fusion rate in spine tumor surgery cases with perioperative radiation therapy (RT) and to analyze significant facto...

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Autores principales: Kim, Tae-Kyum, Cho, Wonik, Youn, Sang Min, Chang, Ung-Kyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5106359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27847573
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2016.59.6.597