ALGORITHM OF THE SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR SPINAL TUMORS

Abstract

The 571 patients with the tumors of cervical, thoracical and lumbar spine (159 patients with benging tumors, 35 - with primary malignant tumors and 377 - with metastatic lesion of the spine) have been treated surgically in 1997-2009. Tactics of surgical treatment of patients with a tumoral lesion of a column was based on an individual approach to each case of disease and depend on histological type of a tumor, localization, a degree of diffusion of process, presence of complications, age, a somatic state of the patient and sensitivity of a tumor to conservative methods of treatment.

Keywords

• vertebral tumors
• surgical tumors