Decision Making in Patients With Metastatic Spine. The Role of Minimally Invasive Treatment Modalities.

ABSTRACT: Spine metastases affect more than 70% of terminal cancer patients that eventually suffer from severe pain and neurological symptoms. Nevertheless, in the overwhelming majority of the cases, a spinal metastasis represents just one location of a diffuse systemic disease. Therefore, the best practice for treatment of spinal metastases depends on many different aspects of an oncological disease, including the assessment of neurological status, pain, location, and dissemination of the disease as well as the ability to predict the risk of disease progression with neurological worsening, benefits and risks associated to treatment and, eventually, expected survival. To address this need for a framework and algorithm that takes all aspects of care into consideration, we reviewed available evidence

SUBMITTER: Conti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761912 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature