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Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic decompression in the treatment of spinal metastases: A case report.
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- Thoracic spine metastases from lung cancer with incomplete paralysis treated by endoscopic spinal surgery: a case report.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 · 2025Article
- The Role and Clinical Outcomes of Endoscopic Spine Surgery of Treating Spinal Metastases; Outcomes of 29 Cases From 8 Countries.Neurospine · 2023Article
- Endoscopic Techniques for Spinal Oncology: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of spine surgery · 2023Article
- Posterior Endoscopic Cervical Decompression in Metastatic Cervical Spine Tumors: An Alternative to Palliative Surgery.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2022Article
- Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic decompression combined with percutaneous vertebroplasty in treatment of lumbar vertebral body metastases: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2022Article
- A Review of Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Decompression for Radiculopathy.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
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- Endoscopic surgical treatment for symptomatic spinal metastases in long-term cancer survivors.Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) · 2020Article
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Abstract
rationaleSpinal metastases are always associated with specific pain of back and limbs caused by nerve root compression. Although percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD) has been widely performed on patients with back and radicular pain originating from lumbar disc herniation, this minimally invasive surgery is rarely used for the treatment of spinal metastases. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 71-year-old woman with colon cancer and a known L3 vertebral body metastasis presented with significant progressive pain of low back and limbs. DIAGNOSES: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the L3 vertebral body had been involved by osteolytic vertebral metastasis, which extended into spinal canal and compressed the dural sac and nerve root.
interventionsThe patient was treated with percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic decompression and palliative resection of metastases was performed twice on both sides, respectively. After the minimally invasive procedure, the decompression of the dural sac and nerve root was ideal. OUTCOMES: No complications during the procedure were reported. The minimally invasive surgery resulted in prompt and permanent pain relief until the patient died 6 months later. LESSONS: Percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic decompression could be an appropriate treatment option for the patients who suffer neurologic deficits that result from the spinal metastases.
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