Comparison of prognostic scales for patients with metastatic spine disease.

This is one-centre retrospective study with the aim to identify the scale, which provides the most accurate prediction of life expectancy in patients with metastatic lesions in spine. A retrospective analysis of clinical data of 138 patients with metastatic spinal tumors. Patients underwent spinal cord decompression and instrumented stabilization of affected area.

Risk factors for adjacent segment disease development after lumbar fusion.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Purpose: To identify factors which may be important in the occurrence of symptomatic adjacent segment disease (ASD) after lumbar fusion.

Overview Of Literature: Many reports have been published about the risk factors for ASD after lumbar fusion.

Preoperative embolization versus local hemostatic agents in surgery of hypervascular spinal tumors.

Background: Currently, there is no consensus about how to reduce the intraoperative risk of hemorrhage in spinal decompression surgery of hypervascular spinal tumors, such as aggressive hemangioma, multiple myeloma, plasmacytoma, metastasis of renal cell carcinoma.

Methods: A retrospective study of 110 patients, operated in our institute was held in the period between 2003 and 2013. There were 69 male and 41 female patients with extradural hypervascular spinal tumor.