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Symptomatic spinal metastasis: A systematic literature review of the preoperative prognostic factors for survival, neurological, functional and quality of life in surgically treated patients and methodological recommendations for prognostic studies

PURPOSE: While several clinical prediction rules (CPRs) of survival exist for patients with symptomatic spinal metastasis (SSM), these have variable prognostic ability and there is no recognized CPR for health related quality of life (HRQoL). We undertook a critical appraisal of the literature to id...

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Autores principales: Nater, Anick, Martin, Allan R., Sahgal, Arjun, Choi, David, Fehlings, Michael G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28225772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171507