Open AccessA comparison of the modified Tokuhashi and Tomita scores in determining prognosis for patients afflicted with spinal metastasis
Author(s) -
Ahmed Aoude,
Louis-Philippe Amiot
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
canadian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1488-2310
pISSN - 0008-428X
DOI - 10.1503/cjs.012013
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , metastasis , overall survival , cancer
The prognosis of patients with spinal metastasis is not very promising and hard to predict. It is for this reason that scoring systems, such as the modified Tokuhashi and Tomita scores, have been created. We sought to determine the effectiveness of these scores in predicting patient survival.
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