ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2015
Long-term survivors after surgical management of metastatic spinal cord compression.
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- Quality of life in patients with malignant spinal cord compression: a systematic review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Pooled it
- Visceral Metastasis: A Prognostic Factor of Survival in Patients with Spinal Metastases.Orthopaedic surgery · 2020Pooled it
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- Malnutrition in Spine Oncology: Where Are We and What Are We Measuring?Global spine journal · 2025Article
- Application of the NSE score (Neurology-Stability-Epidural compression assessment) to establish the need for surgery in spinal metastases of elderly patients: a multicenter investigation.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Article
- Management of Spinal Metastasis by Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques: Surgical Principles and Indications-A Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Outcome of Surgical Treatment for Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.Asian journal of neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Evaluation of prognostic preoperative factors in patients undergoing surgery for spinal metastases: Results in a consecutive series of 81 cases.Surgical neurology international · 2022Article
- A novel risk stratification for predicting prognosis of colorectal cancer patients with bone metastasis.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2021Article
- Prognostic Factors Influencing Survival Rate of Patients Operated for Prostate-Related Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression (MSCC).Indian journal of surgical oncology · 2020Article
- Relationship Between Visceral Metastases and Survival in Patients with Metastasis-related Spinal Cord Compression.Orthopaedic surgery · 2019Article
- Prognostic Differences in Patients with Solitary and Multiple Spinal Metastases.Orthopaedic surgery · 2019Article
- The Michel Benoist and Robert Mulholland yearly European spine journal review: a survey of the "surgical and research" articles in the European spine journal, 2015.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeMetastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) incidences are increasing. Our objective was to identify predictive factors involved in long-term survival after use of a surgical approach.
methodsWe retrospectively analyzed all patients referred to our institution for MSCC who underwent surgery (N = 138). We identified patients with an overall survival (OS) rate greater than 2 years, compared their characteristics to the remaining patients, and performed recursive partitioning analysis (RPA).
resultsMedian OS was 7.8 months (95 % confidence interval 4.4-11.2). Thirty-nine patients presented with OS ≥2 years. A comparative analysis found significant differences concerning the delay (first symptom-surgery, p < 0.001), number of systemic (p = 0.001) or bone metastases (p = 0.013), Karnofsky performance status (KPS) (p = 0.006), Frankel (p = 0.025), ASA scores (p < 0.001), weight loss (p = 0.003), hyperalgia (p = 0.002), chemotherapy use (p = 0.034), and primary tumor (p < 0.001). RPA classification identified six prognostic classes based on the ASA score, primary type, KPS, and systemic metastases.
conclusionLong-term metastatic cancer survivor patients are an increasing population with specific characteristics.
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