Vertebral Tumors

Vertebral Tumors : 978-0-7817-8867-0

Table Of Contents
BASICS

Epidemology of Spinal Tumors
Michel Benoist, Thibaut Lenoir, and Pierre Guigui

Classifications of Bone Tumors of the Spine
Stefano Boriani, Stefania Paderni, Alessandro Gasbarrini, Michele
Cappuccio, Luca Boriani, and Stefano Bandiera

DIAGNOSIS

Specific Aspects of Spinal Tumors and Traumatisms in Children
Andre J. Kaelin

Bone Metastasis: Update on Imaging Workup
M. Lemort

TUMORS: TREATMENT PRINCIPLES

Overview of the Management of Metatastic Spine Tumors
Yoshiya Yamada and Mark H. Bilsky

Image Guided Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy for Spinal Tumors: A
Review
Yoshiya Yamada and Mark H. Bilsky

Place of Biphosphonates in Spinal Metastases
Jean-Jacques Body

The Role of Brachytherapy in the Management of Spinal Tumors
Yoshiya Yamada

Biomechanics of Cement Augmentation in Tumor Treatment
Michael A.K. Liebschner and Tony S. Keller

Advances in the Management of Hypervascular Tumors of the Spine
A. Hadjipavlou

SURGERY FOR SPINAL TUMORS

A Randomized Trial of Decompressive Surgery in Metastatic Epidural
Spinal Cord Compression
Roy A. Patchell

Oncologically Appropriate Surgery in the Treatment of Primary Bone
Tumors of the Spine
Stefano Boriani, Stefania Paderni, Michele Cappuccio, Alessandro
Gasbarrini, Luca Boriani, and Stefano Bandiera

Management of Spinal Metastases
Charles S.B. Galsako

Intraoperative ISO C Navigation in Treatment of Difficult Spine
Fractures and Spine Tumors
S. Rajasekaran

Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression
Roy A. Patchell

Vertebral Augmentation and Radiosurgery in the Treatment of
Osteolytic Vertebral Fractures
Krzysztof Siemionow and Isador H. Lieberman

Intraoperative Radionuclide Localization for Osteoid Osteoma and
Osteoblastoma of the Spine
Brian J.C. Freeman and Samuel W. Judd

En Bloc Resection of Tumors of the Thoracolumbar Spine: Surgical
Techniques
P.I.J.M. Wuisman

Surgical Outcomes and Guidelines for Management of Metastatic Spinal
Cancer
A. Hadjipavlou