Study on the clinical efficacy of bone-filled mesh vertebroplasty combined with posterior screw and rod internal fixation in the treatment of thoracolumbar metastases: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Thoracolumbar metastases is a difficult disease to deal with in spinal surgery. The aim of this study is to investigate the clinical efficacy of bone-filled mesh vertebroplasty combined with posterior spinal internal fixation in the treatment of thoracolumbar metastases.

Methods: The clinical data of 68 patients with thoracolumbar vertebral metastases from January 2018 to April 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.

A propensity score matching study of the short-term efficacy of azygos arch-sparing McKeown minimally invasive esophagectomy.

Background: To evaluate the short-term efficacy of azygos arch-sparing McKeown minimally invasive esophagectomy (McKeown-MIE).

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 221 patients with thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent McKeown-MIE at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of Gaozhou People's Hospital from August 1, 2017 to September 30, 2019. According to whether the azygos arch was preserved or not, the patients were assigned to one of two groups: the preservation group (40 cases) and the ligation group (181 cases).