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Metastatic Disease of the Thoracolumbar Spine

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Cancer in the Spine

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Abstract

Metastases are the neoplasms most commonly seen by both orthopaedic and neurosurgeons, and the spine is the site most frequently involved (9,20). At autopsy, more than 70% of patients who die of cancer have vertebral metastases (23). Although nearly all malignancies may metastasize to bone, carcinoma of breast and bronchogenic origin, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma account for half of all spinal metastases (4,11,12,20,35,38,51).

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    L. Brett Babat MD

  2. Lerner College of Medicine and The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Robert F. McLain MD

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  1. Lerner College of Medicine and The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Robert F. McLain MD

  2. The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski MD  & Edward C. Benzel MD, FACS  & 

  3. University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

    Maurie Markman MD

  4. Taussig Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Ronald M. Bukowski MD

  5. Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

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Babat, L.B., McLain, R.F. (2006). Metastatic Disease of the Thoracolumbar Spine. In: McLain, R.F., Lewandrowski, KU., Markman, M., Bukowski, R.M., Macklis, R., Benzel, E.C. (eds) Cancer in the Spine. Current Clinical Oncology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-971-4_31

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