Metastatic spinal cord compression
Clinical outcomes and risk factors in patients with cervical metastatic spinal cord compression after posterior decompressive and spinal stabilization surgery
... Patients and methods: A retrospective analysis of medical records was performed on 19 patients who had undergone decompressive surgery and spine stabilization due to metastatic spinal cord ...
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Original Article Prognostic factors and surgical outcome after decompressive surgery in aged patients with metastatic spinal cord compression
... Thanks to the development of molecularly tar- geted interventions, chemotherapies, and sys- tematic treatments cancer patients are living longer and growing older [1-3]. Aged patients usually have a poor tolerance to ...
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Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression (MSCC) —The Evolving Story from Kashmir
... Spinal cord compression occurs due to displacement of the part or whole of the spinal ...lesions. Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) is a well-recognized ...
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Comparing Radiotherapy with 4 GY x 5 Fractions VS 3 GY x 10 Fractions for Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression
... Metastatic spinal cord compression is on of the most devastating neurological complication affecting 5%-10% of cancer patients resulting from spine metastases extending into the epidural ...
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Pathologic fracture and metastatic spinal cord compression in patients with prostate cancer and bone metastases
... Bone metastasis is a common complication in patients with advanced stage prostate cancer and might even be found already at first clinical diagnosis [1,2]. Increasing extent of spread might compromise bone stability, ...
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Original Article Postoperative survival and functional outcome of palliative decompression and stabilization for thoracic metastatic spinal cord compression: prognostic factor analysis
... thoracic metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) after operation and to identify parameters influencing the postoperative survival ...to spinal metastases, preoperative ambulatory ...
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Preoperative embolization in patients with metastatic spinal cord compression: mandatory or optional?
... Palliative decompression surgery for MSCC is associ- ated with problems such as potential massive bleeding and postoperative complications [8]. Several authors have suggested that preoperative embolization could re- duce ...
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Prognostic Factors and a Survival Score for Patients with Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression (MSCC) from Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)
... each series from the contributing centers represented an unselected group of Mscc patients treated within a specific time period. Irradiation was performed with 6-10 MV photons. treatment volumes encompassed one normal ...
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Spinal cord compression as initial presentation of metastatic occult follicular thyroid carcinoma.
... But spinal cord compression as the initial presentation of metastatic occult follicular carcinoma without any thyroid enlargement is unusual and relatively ...the spinal cord at ...
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<p>Surgical Treatment of Spinal Cord Compression Caused by Metastatic Small Cell Lung Cancer: Ten Years of Experience in a Single Center</p>
... developed spinal metastasis, but SCC was identi fi ed in only 4% of ...with metastatic SCC caused by SCLC who were candidate for surgical intervention were even rarer and poorly ...for metastatic SCC ...
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Original Article Validation of a scoring system predicting survival and function outcome in patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC): a prospective and multicenter study
... epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC), a common complication of malignant tumors, occurs when malignant tumors metas- tasize to the vertebra or epidural space and consequently causes spinal ...
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Original Article What are the differences in clinical outcomes between the older and the younger patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression after decompressive surgery? A systematic comparison
... (age: 59 years old or younger) with MESCC were retrospectively analyzed in the study at the Affiliated Hospital of Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, between January 2011 and September 2015. Patients were ...
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Symptomatic malignant spinal cord compression in children: a single-center experience
... (15.9%). Cord compression was the presenting feature of a new malignancy in 33 (75%) patients, and a consequence of metastatic disease progression or relapse in the remaining 11 (25%) ...of ...
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NEOPLASTIC CAUSES OF SPINAL CORD AND CAUDA EQUINA COMPRESSION IN ADULTS: PATHOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL FEATURES
... of metastatic tumors. In con trast, surgical series of spinal canal neoplasms general ly contain a lower percentage of metastatic ...of metastatic tumors vary depending on the policy in a ...
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Neurological outcome of treatment for patients with impending paralysis due to epidural spinal cord compression by metastatic spinal tumor
... (n = 55) (Table 1). In the posterior decompression and stabilization group, spinal cord decompression at the com- pressed level and posterior stabilization of 2–3 vertebras with pedicle screws were ...
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Spinal Cord Compression Revealing an Intraosseous Schwannoma
... considered metastatic and not the primitive tumor because they were multiple and infracentimetric; getting biopsy of these pulmonary nodules would be important to confirm this, but it was impossible because of the ...
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Direct decompressive surgical resection in the treatment of spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer: a randomised trial
... For patients randomised to the radiation group, radiotherapy was started within 24 h after randomisation. The total dose was 30 Gy given in ten fractions (3·0 Gy 10 fractions). Treatments were delivered to a port that ...
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Original Article Prediction of postoperative ambulatory status in patients with spinal cord compression resulted from metastatic cancers
... Abstract: This study aims to create a scoring model with which to predict postoperative ambulatory status and guild surgeons to select the appropriate therapy for patients with metastatic epidural spinal ...
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Background: Compressive myelopathy is the term used to describe the spinal cord compression either from
... Spinal cord injury is the major cause of quadriplegia and ...traumatic spinal lesion. In patients who have negative plain film for spinal injury but high clinical suspicion of ...
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Slow Spinal Cord Compression Inducing by Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors in Cotonou
... Adjien, C., Mapaga, J.N., Hode, L., Goud- jinou, G., Sowanou, A., Domingo, R., Gni- gone, P., Mambila, G., Affanou, D., Ndou- ongo, P.H.K. and Houinato, D. (2018) Slow Spinal Cord Compression ...
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