Spinal Neoplasms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 6D image guidance for spinal non-invasive stereotactic body radiation therapy: Comparison between ExacTrac X-ray 6D with kilo-voltage cone-beam CT. 
  • A Systematic Review of Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma to the Spine. 
  • A Web-Based Calculator for Predicting the Occurrence of Wound Complications, Wound Infection, and Unplanned Reoperation for Wound Complications in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Spinal Metastases. 
  • A novel classification system for spinal instability in neoplastic disease: an evidence-based approach and expert consensus from the Spine Oncology Study Group. 
  • A systematic review of clinical outcomes for patients diagnosed with skin cancer spinal metastases. 
  • A technique of intensity-modulated radiosurgery (IMRS) for spinal tumors. 
  • AI-guided parameter optimization in inverse treatment planning. 
  • ANZCCSG BabyBrain99; intensified systemic chemotherapy, second look surgery and involved field radiation in young children with central nervous system malignancy. 
  • Adjunct and minimally invasive techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of vertebral tumors. 
  • Adverse hypersensitivity reactions to mesna as adjunctive therapy for cyclophosphamide. 
  • Aggressive "benign" primary spine neoplasms: osteoblastoma, aneurysmal bone cyst, and giant cell tumor. 
  • An image-guided technique for planning and verification of supine craniospinal irradiation. 
  • An unusual presentation of thyroid papillary carcinoma: enlargement of a cervical intervertebral foramen. 
  • Analysis of Outcomes Between Traditional Open versus Mini-Open Approach in Surgical Treatment of Spinal Metastasis. 
  • Animal Models of Metastatic Lesions to the Spine: A Focus on Epidural Spinal Cord Compression. 
  • Apparatus-dependent dosimetric differences in spine stereotactic body radiotherapy. 
  • Association of neurologic deficits with surgical outcomes and health-related quality of life after treatment for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression. 
  • Bone graft options for spinal fusion following resection of spinal column tumors: systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Castleman's disease of the sacral spine. 
  • Catecholamine-secreting paraganglioma of the thoracic spinal column: report of an unusual case and review of the literature. 
  • Characterization of T gene sequence variants and germline duplications in familial and sporadic chordoma. 
  • Chondrosarcoma of the spine: a narrative review. 
  • Chordoma of the sacrum and mobile spine: a narrative review. 
  • Clear cell chondrosarcoma: Cytologic findings in six cases. 
  • Clinical Decision Making: Integrating Advances in the Molecular Understanding of Spine Tumors. 
  • Clinical, surgical, and molecular prognostic factors for survival after spinal sarcoma resection. 
  • Clinician Experiences in Treatment Decision-Making for Patients with Spinal Metastases: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Comparison of three predictive scoring systems for morbidity in oncological spine surgery. 
  • Computed tomography of axial skeletal osteoid osteomas. 
  • Consensus building in metastatic spine disease. 
  • Cost-Effectiveness of Treatment Strategies for Spinal Metastases. 
  • Development and Assessment of a Predictive Score for Vertebral Compression Fracture After Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Spinal Metastases. 
  • Development and Internal Validation of a Recursive Partitioning Analysis-Based Model Predictive of Pain Flare Incidence After Spine Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. 
  • Development and validation of a recursive partitioning analysis-based pretreatment decision-making tool identifying ideal candidates for spine stereotactic body radiation therapy. 
  • Development of a Metastatic Spinal Tumor Frailty Index (MSTFI) Using a Nationwide Database and Its Association with Inpatient Morbidity, Mortality, and Length of Stay After Spine Surgery. 
  • Does facility volume influence survival in patients with primary malignant bone tumors of the vertebral column? A comparative cohort study. 
  • Dosimetric effect of translational and rotational errors for patients undergoing image-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy for spinal metastases. 
  • Effects of primary and recurrent sacral chordoma on the motor and nociceptive function of hindlimbs in rats: an orthotopic spine model. 
  • Embolization of metastatic spinal tumors. 
  • Embolization of sacral tumors. 
  • Epidemiologic and survival trends in adult primary bone tumors of the spine. 
  • Epidemiologic, functional, and oncologic outcome analysis of spinal sarcomas treated surgically at a single institution over 10 years. 
  • Epidemiology of primary malignant non-osseous spinal tumors in the United States. 
  • Extramedullary recurrence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia 15 years after initial diagnosis. 
  • Factors associated with improved survival following surgery for renal cell carcinoma spinal metastases. 
  • False-positive spinal MR findings for subarachnoid spread of primary CNS tumor in postoperative pediatric patients. 
  • From active shape model to active optical flow model: a shape-based approach to predicting voxel-level dose distributions in spine SBRT. 
  • Glomus jugulare tumor metastatic to the sacrum after high-dose radiation therapy: case report. 
  • Hardware failure in patients with metastatic cancer to the spine. 
  • High-dose areas are unintentionally created as a result of gap shifts when the prescribed dose in the two adjacent areas are different. 
  • Image-guided and intensity-modulated radiosurgery for patients with spinal metastasis. 
  • Image-guided procedures for intensity-modulated spinal radiosurgery. Technical note. 
  • Impact of Multidisciplinary Intraoperative Teams on Thirty-Day Complications After Sacral Tumor Resection. 
  • Impact of collimator leaf width and treatment technique on stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy plans for intra- and extracranial lesions. 
  • Importance of Spinal Alignment in Primary and Metastatic Spine Tumors. 
  • Improving Quality and Consistency in NRG Oncology Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 0631 for Spine Radiosurgery via Knowledge-Based Planning. 
  • Independent predictors for local recurrence following surgery for spinal metastasis. 
  • Independent predictors of complication following surgery for spinal metastasis. 
  • Initial experience with the use of an expandable titanium cage as a vertebral body replacement in patients with tumors of the spinal column: a report of 95 patients. 
  • Insulin therapy for ketolactic acidosis complicating malignancy. 
  • Interhospital transfer status for spinal metastasis patients in the United States is associated with more severe clinical presentations and higher rates of inpatient complications. 
  • Introduction. Update on adult neuro-oncology. 
  • Investigation of nonmechanical findings during spinal movement screening for identifying and/or ruling out metastatic cancer. 
  • Long-term survival following total sacrectomy with reconstruction for the treatment of primary osteosarcoma of the sacrum. A case report. 
  • MYCN amplification drives an aggressive form of spinal ependymoma. 
  • Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the spine after radiation therapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma. 
  • Management of extranodal lymphoma of the spine: a study of 30 patients. 
  • Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to the Spine: Outcomes and Morbidity: Single-Center Experience. 
  • Metastatic dedifferentiated chordoma with elevated beta-hCG: a case report. 
  • Metastatic human breast cancer to the spine produces mechanical hyperalgesia and gait deficits in rodents. 
  • Metastatic melanoma to the spine. Demographics, risk factors, and prognosis in 114 patients. 
  • Minimally Invasive Muscle Sparing Posterior-Only Approach for Lumbar Circumferential Decompression and Stabilization to Treat Spine Metastasis--Technical Report. 
  • Minimally invasive treatments for metastatic tumors of the spine. 
  • Mobile spine chordoma: results of 166 patients from the AOSpine Knowledge Forum Tumor database. 
  • Molecular Markers and Targeted Therapeutics in Metastatic Tumors of the Spine: Changing the Treatment Paradigms. 
  • Non-hepatocellular carcinoma spinal metastases. 
  • Novalis radiosurgery for metastatic spine tumors. 
  • Outcomes following surgical intervention for impending and gross instability caused by multiple myeloma in the spinal column. 
  • Overview of stereotactic body radiotherapy and the nursing role. 
  • Part II: spinal-cord neoplasms--primary tumours of the bony spine and adjacent soft tissues. 
  • Patterns of tumor spread and risk of fracture and epidural impingement in metastatic vertebrae. 
  • Pediatric presacral masses. 
  • Percutaneous deflation of a vertebral artery occlusion balloon that migrated to the axillary artery. 
  • Perioperative complications with costotransversectomy and anterior approaches to thoracic and thoracolumbar tumors. 
  • Plastic surgery wound closure following resection of spinal metastases. 
  • Postoperative radiosurgery for malignant spinal tumors. 
  • Postoperative survival and functional outcomes for patients with metastatic gynecological cancer to the spine: case series and review of the literature. 
  • Predicting Short-Term Outcome After Surgery for Primary Spinal Tumors Based on Patient Frailty. 
  • Predicting survival for metastatic spine disease: a comparison of nine scoring systems. 
  • Predominance of Spinal Metastases Involving the Posterior Vertebral Body. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and perinatal management of fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma. 
  • Preoperative Nutrition Consults Associated with Decreased Postoperative Complication Rate and Decreased Length of Hospital Stay After Spine Metastasis Surgery. 
  • Preoperative spinal tumor embolization: an institutional experience with Onyx. 
  • Preoperative transarterial embolization of spinal column neoplasms. 
  • Prevention of facial pressure ulcers using the Mayfield clamp for sacral tumor resection. 
  • Primary lesion location influences postoperative survival in patients with metastatic colorectal spinal lesions. 
  • Primary pediatric intraspinal sarcomas. Report of 3 cases. 
  • Primary spinal yolk sac tumor with brain metastasis: case report and review of the literature. 
  • Prognostic significance of human telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter region mutations C228T and C250T for overall survival in spinal chordomas. 
  • RTOG 0631 phase 2/3 study of image guided stereotactic radiosurgery for localized (1-3) spine metastases: phase 2 results. 
  • Radiculopathy in the setting of lumbar nerve root compression due to an extradural intraforaminal lipoma: a report of 3 cases. 
  • Radiosurgery for Treatment of Renal Cell Metastases to Spine: A Systematic Review of the Literature. 
  • Radiosurgery in the treatment of spinal metastases: tumor control, survival, and quality of life after helical tomotherapy. 
  • Radiosurgical treatment for Ewing's sarcoma of the lumbar spine: case report. 
  • Radiotherapy and Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Metastatic Spine Tumors: A Narrative Review. 
  • Radiotherapy in pediatric medulloblastoma: quality assessment of Pediatric Oncology Group Trial 9031. 
  • Readmissions After Surgical Resection of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine at a Single Institution. 
  • Recent advances in intradural spinal tumors. 
  • Reliability of a spinal metastasis prognostic score to model 1-year survival. 
  • Review of stereotactic radiosurgery for intradural spine tumors. 
  • Risk factors for wound-related reoperations in patients with metastatic spine tumor. 
  • Sacral tumor resection and the impact on pelvic incidence. 
  • Solitary spinal metastasis of Hürthle cell thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Spinal cavernous and capillary hemangiomas in adults. 
  • Spinal instability neoplastic score: an analysis of reliability and validity from the spine oncology study group. 
  • Spinal metastases 2021: a review of the current state of the art and future directions. 
  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy for lesions of the spine and paraspinal regions. 
  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy reirradiation for recurrent epidural spinal metastases. 
  • Surgical Management of Osteoblastoma of the Spine: Case Series and Review of the Literature. 
  • Systematic review of charged-particle therapy for chordomas and sarcomas of the mobile spine and sacrum. 
  • The evolving role of stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiation therapy for patients with spine tumors. 
  • Thoracolumbar vertebral reconstruction after surgery for metastatic spinal tumors: long-term outcomes. 
  • Three IMRT advanced planning tools: A multi-institutional side-by-side comparison. 
  • Timing of surgery and radiotherapy in the management of metastatic spine disease: a systematic review. 
  • Tokuhashi score is predictive of survival in a cohort of patients undergoing surgery for renal cell carcinoma spinal metastases. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Spinal Tumors. 
  • Total en bloc spondylectomy for locally aggressive and primary malignant tumors of the lumbar spine. 
  • Transarterial embolization of vertebral hemangioma. 
  • Treatment and outcomes of epithelioid sarcoma of the spine. 
  • Tumoral calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease mimicking a cervical spine neoplasm: case report. 
  • Visceral Fat Volume From Standard Preoperative CT is an Independent Predictor of Short-term Survival in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Metastatic Spine Disease. 
  • Volumetric arc intensity-modulated therapy for spine body radiotherapy: comparison with static intensity-modulated treatment. 
  • Volumetric-modulated arc therapy: effective and efficient end-to-end patient-specific quality assurance. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Daniel, Jennifer Colleen, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering
  • Yoo, Sua, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology