Pires de Aguiar et al – Cervical spine metastasis    

Diagnosis and management of metastatic cervical spine tumors.

Paulo Henrique Pires de Aguiar

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, Marcos Vinicius Flores Serra1,3,,6, Marcos

Vinicius Calfat Maldaun1,2,,5,6, Adriana Tahara1,3,,4, Vanessa Imada

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, Carlos

Alexandre Zicarelli1,3,4,6, Antonio Santos de Araújo Júnior2,6

1- Clínica de Neurologia e Neurocirurgia Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil 2-Neurosurgeon, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil 3-Neurosurgeon, Hospital Santa Paula, São Paulo, Brazil 4-Neurosurgeon, Hospital São Camilo, Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil 5-Neurosurgeon, Hospital São José, São Paulo, Brazil 6- Neurosurgeon, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil

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Pires de Aguiar et al – Cervical spine metastasis    

ABSTRACT Background – The authors present their series based on 64 patients with cervical metastasis. The majority of the metastasis was secondary to lung cancer. All patients were submitted to surgery for spinal cord decompression, and 32 to stabilization of the spine by means of posterior fixation. Eighteen patients were submitted to 360 grades anterior and posterior fixation. The cases were analyzed by Tokuhashi Scale. Results – Regarding to gender: The median survival time for males was 8 months and for female was 10 months (95% CI: 1 to 10) (P