Passive Entrapment of Tumor Cells Determines Metastatic Dissemination to Spinal Bone and Other Osseous Tissues

• Thomas Broggini,

  Current address: Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3733-486X

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• Andras Piffko,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Christian J. Hoffmann,

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Christoph Harms,

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Peter Vajkoczy ,

  * E-mail: marcus.czabanka@charite.de (MC); peter.vajkoczy@charite.de (PV)

  ¶‡ These authors have shared senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Marcus Czabanka

  * E-mail: marcus.czabanka@charite.de (MC); peter.vajkoczy@charite.de (PV)

  ¶‡ These authors have shared senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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