Disorder of Vertebral Metastasis

Czech version

Authors: T. Brož ¹; J. Šiller ²; K. Zinek ¹
Authors‘ workplace: Neurochirurgické oddělení, Chirurgická klinika, Krajská nemocnice Pardubice primář MUDr. P. Hájek, Ph. D. ¹; Chirurgická klinika, Krajská nemocnice Pardubice, přednosta doc. MUDr. K. Havlíček, CSc. Ústav zdravotnických studií Univerzity Pardubice, přednosta prof. MUDr. A. Pellant, DrSc. ²
Published in: Rozhl. Chir., 2007, roč. 86, č. 6, s. 320-322.
Category: Monothematic special - Original

Overview

The aim of this article is putting near problems of treatment vertebral metastasis to professional public. Because of improving of imagine methods the diagnosis of this disorder is early making and that is way patient benefit of early initiation of adequate therapy. Authors of this paper rate literary studies concerning of therapeutic methods for treatment of vertebral metastasis and comper to their group of patients.

Sources

1. Bailar, J. C., Gornik, H. L. Cancer undefeated. N. Engl. J. Med., 1997, Vol. 336, 1569–1574.

2. Hatrick, N. C., Lucas, J. D., Timothy, A. R., et al. The surgical treatment of metastatic disease of the spine. Radiother. Oncol., 2000, Vol. 56, p. 335–339.

3. Solberg, A., Bremnes, R. M. Metastatic spinal cord compression: diagnostic delay, treatment, and outcome. Anticancer. Res., 1999, Vol. 19, p. 677–684.

4. Gilbert, R. W., Kim, J. H., Posner, J. B. Epidural spinal cord compression from metastatic tumor: diagnosis and treatment. Ann. Neurol., 1978, Vol. 3, p. 40–51.

5. Seidl, Z., Obenberger, J. Úloha magnetické rezonance v diagnostice vertebrogenních metastáz. Čes. a Slov. Neurol. Neurochir., 1998, Vol. 5, p. 278–284.

6. Janjan, N. Bone metastases: approaches to management. Semin. Oncol., 2001, Vol. 28, p. 28–34.

7. Greenberg, H. S., Kim, J. H., Posner, J. B. Epidural spinal cord compression from metastatic tumor: results with a new treatment protocol. Ann. Neurol., 1980, Vol. 8, p. 361–366.

8. Tokuhashi, Y., Matsuzaki, H., Oda, H., Oshima, M., Ryu, J. A revised scoring system for preoperative evaluation of metastatic spine tumor prognosis. Spine, 2005, Vol. 30, p. 2186–2191.

9. Prasat, D., Schoff, D. Malignant spinal-cord compression. Lancet Oncol.,2005, Vol. 5, p. 15–24.