Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - National Cancer Institute - Department of Anaesthesia and Pain relief

Minimally invasive approaches to the spine offer an important tool in the treatment of patients with metastatic disease : they provide a means of relieving symptoms with less physiological disturbance and trauma in patients with limited life expectancies . However , these techniques should not be used if doing so will preclude achieving the goals of surgery ( i.e., to decompress the neural structure and stabilize the spine ) , nor should they be used in patients who event of a complication

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