Survival, local control, and health‐related quality of life in patients with oligometastatic and polymetastatic spinal tumors: A multicenter, international study

O Barzilai, AL Versteeg, A Sahgal, LD Rhines… - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The treatment of oligometastatic (≤ 5 metastases) spinal disease has trended
toward ablative therapies, yet to the authors' knowledge little is known regarding the …

Management–spinal metastases

A Nater, A Sahgal, M Fehlings - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to a worldwide increase of cancer incidence and a longer life expectancy of patients
with metastatic cancer, a rise in the incidence of symptomatic vertebral metastases has been …

Spinal metastasis: narrative reviews of the current evidence and treatment modalities

P Jaipanya, P Chanplakorn - Journal of International …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The treatment for spinal metastasis has evolved significantly during the past decade. An
advancement in systemic therapy has led to a prolonged overall survival in cancer patients …

Recent advances and new discoveries in the pipeline of the treatment of primary spinal tumors and spinal metastases: a scoping review of registered clinical studies …

JC Furlan, JR Wilson, EM Massicotte, A Sahgal… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The field of spinal oncology has substantially evolved over the past decades. This review
synthesizes and appraises what was learned and what will potentially be discovered from …

Hybrid surgery–radiosurgery therapy for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: A prospective evaluation using patient-reported outcomes

O Barzilai, MK Amato, L McLaughlin… - Neuro-oncology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) represent an important measure of cancer
therapy effect. For patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC) …

Changing the adverse event profile in metastatic spine surgery: an evidence-based approach to target wound complications and instrumentation failure

A Mesfin, DM Sciubba, N Dea, A Nater, JE Bird… - Spine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Systematic review. Objective. To identify risk factors and preventive methods
for wound complications and instrumentation failure after metastatic spine surgery. Summary …

Impact of spinal instrumentation on neurological outcome in patients with intermediate Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS)

M Lenschow, M Lenz, N von Spreckelsen, J Ossmann… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Spinal epidural metastases are a common complication of malignancies
that can compromise spinal stability and subsequently lead to neurologic deficits in addition …

Predictive factors of survival in a surgical series of metastatic epidural spinal cord compression and complete external validation of 8 multivariate models of survival in …

A Nater, LA Tetreault, B Kopjar, PM Arnold… - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND This study was designed to identify preoperative predictors of survival in
surgically treated patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC), to …

Association of neurologic deficits with surgical outcomes and health‐related quality of life after treatment for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression

O Barzilai, AL Versteeg, CR Goodwin, A Sahgal… - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background A critical knowledge gap exists regarding the impact of neurologic deficits on
surgical outcomes and health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients surgically treated …

Symptomatic spinal metastasis: a systematic literature review of the preoperative prognostic factors for survival, neurological, functional and quality of life in surgically …

A Nater, AR Martin, A Sahgal, D Choi, MG Fehlings - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Purpose While several clinical prediction rules (CPRs) of survival exist for patients with
symptomatic spinal metastasis (SSM), these have variable prognostic ability and there is no …