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PRIMARY AND METASTATIC LESIONS OF THE SPINE

  • Metin DOĞAN
  • Tarık YAZAR
  • Yener SAĞLIK
  • Mustafa ÖZDEMİR

J Turk Spinal Surg 1993;4(2):72-74

From September - 1986 to March - 1994, 57 of 71 patients with spinal tumoral lesions have been operated on our clinic and 14 of them were conservatively treated. From March-1989 to March-1994 302 patients with various tumoral lesions have been consulted in our clinic. 52 of 302 patients localized on the spine. İn the patients which were operated on, 14 primary benign, 19 primary malign and 25 metastatic lesions were localised on the spine. İn the patients which were not operated on, 6 primary benign, 1 primary malign and 7 metastatic lesion were localized on the spine. The surgical procedure was only incisional biopsy 21%, resection 5%, laminectomy 1.7%, ante-riorfusion 13.7%, instrumentation 58.6%. Mean follow-up was 15 months and 13 deaths have been observed in this period.

Keywords: Tumors, spine, primary and metastatic.