Significance of the vertebral venous (batson's) plexus in metastatic spread in colorectal carcinoma
- 1 July 1977
Abstract
Recently studies of bone metastases in colorectal carcinoma by radionuclide scanning are reviewed. A frequency of 33-61% has been reported using the more recently available bone scanning tests. The commonly accepted frequency of bone metastases from colorectal carcinoma by x-ray or anatomic studies is 5%. This much higher frequency currently being reported must still be established by additional studies. However, if the much higher frequency currently being reported is firm, they suggest a much greater importance of the Vertebral Venous Plexus in tumor spread than heretofore suspected for colorectal carcinoma. Cancer 40:67–71, 1977.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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