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SPINE TUMORS

  • İSLAM C.
  • SAĞLIK Y.
  • YAZAR T.
  • DOĞAN M.
  • SÖZEN S.

J Turk Spinal Surg 1991;2(2):57-58

From September-1986 to June-1992, 29 of 31 patients with spinal tumoral lesions have been operated in our clinic. 19 Malignarıt (10 metastatic) and 12 benign tumors were localized on cervical (3), cervicothoracal (2), thora-cal (11), thoracotumbar (1), lumbar (9), lumbosacral (2), sacral (2) and coccygeal (1), regions. 31 Operations have been performed to 29 patients and we applied anterior orposterior instruments in 134 patients. The mean follow up was 18 months and 5 deaths have been observed in this period.