ISSN: 1300-0292
İndekslendiği Dizinler: SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED
CINAHL, Index Copernicus,
Chemical Abstracts (CA),
Excerpta Medica / EMBASE
Dil: Türkçe, İngilizce
İçerik: Orijinal Araştırma, Derleme, Editöre Mektup, Olgu Sunumu, Tıp Eğitimi, Tıbbi Kitap İncelemeleri
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Late Breast Cancer Metastases Of Spine:a Case Report
Kenan BAYRAKCI*, Mustafa ÖZDEMİR*, Murat ALTAY*, Aziz ERAKAR*, Tarık YAZAR*
* Dr., Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department, Ankara, TURKEY
Of all the malign metastatic cancers that metastases to bones and more so to the skeletal system, the most common of these is breast cancer. In this article we report a case in which the patient was diagnosed of having breast cancer with late spinal metastases. After a period of 35 years following her initial diagnosis T12-L1 spinal metastases was established. Because neurologic deficit was present, a two stage combined posterior instrumentation and fusion approach was done followed by an anterior approach for T12-L1 tumour resection, cord decompression and vertebral reconstruction. During the period of 14 months follow-up total neurologic recovery was recorded without any resultant loss in time and neither surgically nor tumour related (distant metastases or new metastatic sites) complications were seen.Keywords: Breast cancer, Late metastases, SpineTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 1999, 17:232-235
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