Surgical treatment of tumours and metastases of the spine by minimally invasive cavity-coblation method.
Tumours and metastases of the spine are extremely stressful for patients, especially for elderly multimorbid patients. The modern cavity/coblation method offers a very good therapeutic alternative for such patients. The goal of this article was to evaluate and present the characteristics, significance, opportunities, issues of the minimum invasive cavity/coblation method as well as the results of the treatment of 302 patients with vertebral tumours and metastases.
1 Department of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.|2 Center of Spine Surgery, Clinikum Fichtelgebirge, Weissenbacher Str., Germany.
Dzmitry
D
Dabravolski
1 Department of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Jan
J
Eßer
1 Department of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.|3 Tumor Center, Maria Hilf Clinics Mönchengladbach, Academic Teaching Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Andreas
A
Lahm
1 Department of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Harry
H
Merk
D055011:Ablation Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D054854:Vertebroplasty
kyphoplasty; minimal invasive surgery; plasma field energy; tumour ablation; tumours and metastases of the spine