Surgical management of metastatic spinal tumors.

Surgical management of primary and metastatic spinal tumors.

BACKGROUND The axial skeleton is a common site for primary tumors and metastatic disease, with metastatic disease being much more common. Primary and metastatic spinal tumors have a diverse range of aggressiveness, ranging from benign lesions to highly infiltrative malignant tumors. METHODS The authors reviewed the results of articles describing the treatment and outcomes of patients with met...

Microwave Tumor Ablation of Vertebral Bone Metastasis: A Case Report

Introduction: Thermal ablation by microwave (MWA) has proven efficacy in treatment of primary and metastatic cancers. Soft tissue tumors could be ablated completely using MWA. However, bony tissue metastasis particularly spinal vertebral metastasis ablation has not reported yet. Case presentation: A 50 year old male patient with primary diagnosed colon cancer undergone surgical resection of ...

Unusual Metastasis of Papillary Thyroid Cancer to the Thoracic Spine: A Case Report, New Surgical Management Proposal, and Review of the Literature

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is significantly more common than follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC), yet FTC has a much higher tendency to metastasize to the spinal column. We present a rare case of a metastatic thoracic spinal column lesion originating from the PTC. Thyroid carcinoma is known to be highly vascular with a significant tendency to hemorrhage during surgical resection. This inc...

Imaging and surgical outcomes of spinal tumors in 18 dogs and one cat

Clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings, histological appearances and surgical outcomes of 18 dogs and one cat with spinal tumors are presented. Medical records of the cases admitted for spinal disorders were reviewed, and cases of spinal tumors that were diagnosed by MRI and confirmed by histological examination were included in this study. T1 weighted, T2 weighted and contrast ...

Erratum to "Surgical Management with Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Spinal Tumors Located on Cervicothoracic Junction : A Single Center Study" by Park HY, et al. (J Korean Neurosurg Soc 57 : 42-49, 2015)

NEOPLASTIC CAUSES OF SPINAL CORD AND CAUDA EQUINA COMPRESSION IN ADULTS: PATHOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL FEATURES

This presentation analyses the histological types, relative incidences, age, sex and anatomical distributions of one hundred and seventy-nine biopsy proven tumors of the spinal canal from a general hospital in Iran. Particular attention is paid to differences in the relative incidence of these tumors compared with that in various published reports and the statistics from several eastern co...