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Article: Researchers at Spinal Cord Injury Center release new data on spinal cord compression.(Clinical report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- January 14, 2009
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According to a study from Heidelberg, Germany, "Retrospective clinical study. The aim of this study was to examine whether the Tokuhashi score correlates with the neurologic outcome in early surgical treatment in metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC)."
"A retrospective analysis of 35 consecutive incomplete tetraplegic and paraplegic patients with vertebral metastases (VM) and spinal cord compression (SCC) was performed. MSCC is a challenging problem in VM and constitutes an oncologic emergency. The Tokuhashi score has been modified recently and seems to constitute the best method of prediction for real survival in patients with VM. Until now the influence of ...