[Quality of life in patients with metastatic spinal tumors].
The authors investigated the postoperative quality of life in 89 patients with metastatic spinal tumors. As the results of our study, it was found that spinal surgery could maintain or improve the quality of life, and then most of patients with poor quality of life had multiple spine/bone metastasis or brain/spinal cord metastasis.
Kasai
Yuichi
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Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Uchida
Atsumasa
A
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