Wide Surgery in the Cervical Spine: Indications, Results, and Complications in a Series of 30 Patients Affected by Primary Bone Tumors.

Background: En bloc surgery is the mainstay treatment for primary malignant bone tumors, as well as in the cervical spine. Unfortunately, literature on the topic is limited to case reports and small series.

Methods: We reviewed all patients affected by primary cervical spine bone tumors treated with en bloc surgeries from 1996 to 2016 and identified 30 eligible cases.

Quality of life, pain, and psychological factors in patients undergoing surgery for primary tumors of the spine.

Purpose: Knowledge about quality of life (QOL), pain, and psychological factors in patients with primary tumors of the spine is limited, but is important in planning rehabilitation after surgery. Aims of this study were to assess the preoperative levels and improvement after surgery of these factors, and to identify the predictors of postoperative pain and QOL.

Methods: Patients with primary tumors undergoing spine surgery were matched for sex and age with patients with metastatic tumors.

Reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Italian version of the Foot Function Index in patients with foot and ankle diseases.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to translate the Foot Function Index (FFI) into Italian, to perform a cross-cultural adaptation and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Italian version of FFI.

Methods: The Italian FFI was developed according to the recommended forward/backward translation protocol and evaluated in patients with foot and ankle diseases. Feasibility, reliability [intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)], internal consistency [Cronbach's alpha (CA)], construct validity (correlation with the SF-36 and a visual analogue scale (VAS) assessing for pain), responsiveness to surgery were assessed.