title: [Surgical treatment of spine metastatic tumor].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the value of surgical treatment on spine metastatic tumor.
  
  
  METHODS
  31 cases of spine metastatic tumor with severe pain or/and neurological deficit were selected and treated with various operative methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Except for 4 cases, all the patients survived from 3 months to 7 years (average 17.6 months). The patients had no complication during treatment. The symptoms and neurological functions recovered with various extent after operation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgical treatment should cautiously be adopted. When the spine metastatic tumor with severe pain and neurological deficit has no response to the conservative methods, the surgical treatment with decompression and internal fixation should be performed to improve the life quality for the patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, PUMC Hospital, CAMS, PUMC, Beijing 100730, China. hongguangx@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Hong-guang
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Qi-bin
authors.initials: QB
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Gui-xing
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Yi-peng
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*