Treatment Outcomes in Spinal Tumors According to Patients' Perspectives: A Focus on Indeterminate Spinal Instability.

Victoria H Schimmelpenning, Robin Brugger, Nikki Rommers, Johann Kunst, Martin Jäger, Christoph E Albers, Helena Milavec

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Article in Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Victoria H SchimmelpenningSpine Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland.

Robin BruggerSpine Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland.

Nikki RommersDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Basel, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0311-5009

Johann KunstSpine Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0004-6576-0825

Martin JägerSpine Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland.

Christoph E AlbersDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2751-3458

Helena MilavecSpine Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5689-0095

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze treatment approaches and outcomes according to patients' perspectives for patients with indeterminate spinal instability caused by neoplastic lesions. Data were collected from 31 patients with a total of 147 spinal neoplastic lesions, 29 of whom had lesions classified as indeterminate. These lesions were divided into two groups: the low indeterminate group (SINS 7-9) and the high indeterminate group (SINS 10-12). Conservative treatment was the primary approach (93%), resulting in improvement in 59% of cases, stability in 22%, and asymptomatic outcomes in 19%. No significant differences in self-reported outcomes were found between surgical and non-surgical treatments (

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Cancer PainJoint InstabilityPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresSpinal NeoplasmsAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPain MeasurementRetrospective StudiesSelf ReportTreatment Outcomeindeterminate spinal instabilityspinal instability neoplastic score (SINS)spinal neoplastic lesionstreatment outcomestumor

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PMID39851954

DOI10.3390/curroncol32010038

PMCPMC11763783

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