Tag: spinal metastases
New study highlights outcomes of cervicothoracic junction instrumentation following separation surgery...
Instrumented fusion across the cervicothoracic junction (CTJ) demonstrated an 18.8% rate of postoperative complications and an 11% overall two-year rate of hardware failure in...
GSC 2022: Stereotactic body radiotherapy associated with better local control and...
The risk of local failure is three and a half times greater after conventional external beam radiotherapy (cEBRT) when compared to stereotactic body radiotherapy...
Routine use of screening MRI and pre-emptive treatment “not warranted” to...
The routine use of screening magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pre-emptive treatment to prevent clinical spinal cord compression (cSCC) is not warranted in patients...
Laboratory markers could predict outcomes for spinal metastases patients
Spinal metastases patients with low serum albumin and elevated platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) should be advised regarding the impact of these laboratory markers on outcomes,...