title: Surgical treatment of metastatic tumors of long bones and the spine.
abstract: We have operated on 42 patients with bone metastasis from various primary tumors over the past fourteen years. The number of operated cases of metastasis secondary to thyroid and breast carcinoma was especially high, since patients with such types of cancer have prolonged life expectancies in general. The sites of these operation were as follows: 27 in the spine, 12 in the femur, 2 in the tibia, and 1 in the humerus.
authors: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Iwamoto
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Sugioka
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Chuman
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Shiba
authors: I
authors: I
authors: Yuge
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009984:Orthopedic Fixation Devices; D010146:Pain / Q000601:surgery; D011788:Quality of Life; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D013977:Tibia; D016896:Treatment Outcome