Posterior-only total

Sadegh Bagherzadeh, Faramarz Roohollahi, Srujan Kopparapu, Cesar Manuel Carballo Cuello, Mohsen Rostami, Mark Greenberg, Puya Alikhani

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Article in Surgical neurology international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Instrumentation failure after lumbar spondylectomy for spinal tumors: a systematic review and pooled individual patient analysis.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 · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sadegh BagherzadehDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Faramarz RoohollahiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Srujan KopparapuDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain and Spine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States.

Cesar Manuel Carballo CuelloDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain and Spine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States.

Mohsen RostamiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain and Spine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States.

Mark GreenbergDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain and Spine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States.

Puya AlikhaniDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brain and Spine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Total Case Description: We report a 57-year-old male with a solitary L4 vertebral metastasis from previously treated bladder cancer, presenting with low back pain and neurogenic claudication. Imaging confirmed a hypermetabolic lesion isolated to L4 without systemic spread. A two-stage posterior-only TES was performed using careful gauze dissection for anterior vertebral release and Conclusion: Posterior-only TES at L4 is feasible in carefully selected patients. Success requires meticulous surgical planning, multidisciplinary coordination, and thorough patient counseling regarding the risk of mechanical complications and the potential need for revision surgery.

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Bladder cancerLumbar spineMetastasisSolitary metastasisSpondylectomy

Identifiers

PMID41036031

DOI10.25259/SNI_772_2025

PMCPMC12482703

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