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Anterior Approaches to the Thoracic Spine in Patients With Cancer: Indications and Results  Garrett L Walsh, Ziya L Gokaslan, Ian E McCutcheon, Michael.

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1 Anterior Approaches to the Thoracic Spine in Patients With Cancer: Indications and Results 
Garrett L Walsh, Ziya L Gokaslan, Ian E McCutcheon, Michael T Mineo, Alan W Yasko, Stephen G Swisher, David S Schrump, Jonathan C Nesbitt, Joe B Putnam, Jack A Roth  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 64, Issue 6, Pages (December 1997) DOI: /S (97)

2 Fig. 1 (A) Preoperative magnetic resonance image demonstrating circumferential spinal cord (arrowheads) compression at T7 from a metastatic head and neck primary. (B) Intraoperative photograph demonstrating decompressed dural sac and a 36F chest tube placed in the postvertebrectomy site. (C) Injection of methyl methacrylate into the chest tube. (D) Final repair demonstrating methyl methacrylate spacer and titanium plate. (E) Postoperative plain film and magnetic resonance image demonstrating decompressed spinal cord. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (97) )

3 Fig. 2 Postoperative neurologic function in patients presenting with neurologic symptoms. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (97) )


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