European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
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This study aimed at evaluating our hypothesis that tumour cells, which pass through the intraoperative cell salvage (IOCS) machine, lose viability due to possible injury to the cell membrane during centrifugation and filtration, enabling safe reinfusion even without filtration. ⋯ The salvaged blood may contain some tumour cells after processing with IOCS machine, but these cells are damaged and hence unable to replicate and unlikely to metastasise. The results of this study support the hypothesis that salvaged blood in MSTS is safe for transfusion.
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To determine if dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) could correlate well with invasive angiography in the characterization of spinal tumor vascularity. ⋯ DCE-MRI is an accurate technique for the assessment of spinal tumor vascularity, which may have a potential value in the decision-making of preoperative embolization.