• Eur Spine J · Feb 2020

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    Revision surgery for tumors of the thoracic and lumbar spine: causes, prevention, and treatment strategy.

    • Pedro Berjano, Riccardo Cecchinato, Alvin Pun, and Stefano Boriani.
    • GSpine4, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
    • Eur Spine J. 2020 Feb 1; 29 (Suppl 1): 66-77.

    IntroductionRevision surgery in spine tumor surgery can offer peculiar challenges given the severity of the majority of these lesions and the complexity of surgical procedures that are required.Materials And Methods And ResultsBased on literature review and on personal experience, surgical site infection, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, tumor recurrence and hardware failures are some of the possible causes of surgical revision in this set of patients.ConclusionsThe aim of this study is to evaluate the most frequent complications that can lead to revision in spine tumor patients, to provide suggestions on how to prevent these events and to offer reasonable strategies to properly plan and perform a revision surgery. These slides can be retrieved under Electronic Supplementary Material.

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