Surgical Spinal Oncology

 

Description:

This book contains the expert knowledge base of the field’s most experienced practitioners in the field of extradural bone and soft tissue malignancy. Chapters include modern classification, advanced anatomy, imaging, and the concepts around a multidisciplinary approach. Since treating primary tumors requires very different strategies than those used in metastatic tumors, the book devotes separate sections to each sub-discipline. For primary tumors, the text covers both benign and malignant entities and addresses unique anatomic zones such as the sacrum and skull base which require special technical expertise. For metastatic disease, the authors address the ever-important concept of prognosis, and discuss how to answer the eternal question: “How much should we do, and for whom?”. Chapters also explore the state of the art of treatment for the “big 5” histologies (renal cell, lung, breast, prostate, thyroid), with a special chapter emphasis on separation surgery and the now-standard combinatorial care between radiation and surgery. In addition, an entire section is dedicated to evolving surgical technology, which covers the use of minimally invasive techniques, navigation, robotics, 3D-printing, and other evolving technologies for spine tumor care. Infrequently-considered topics, such as how to evaluate a lesion which may be a tumor-mimic, and how to think about economic value in spine tumor surgery, are also presented. Surgical Spinal Oncology serves to help surgeons approach difficult clinical scenarios with a thoughtful, collaborative approach that leverages the best technology and thinking the field of spine oncology has to offer.

 

 

Table of Contents:

 

Part I. Diagnostic Approach, Applied Anatomy, and Multidisciplinary Care

1.  Advanced Spinal Anatomy and Applications for the Spine Tumor Surgeon

2.  Modern Pathology in Spinal Tumors

3.  Tumor Classification and Staging Systems in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery

4.  Advanced Imaging Technologies in the Evaluation and Staging of Adult Spine Tumors

5.  Modern Multidisciplinary Care in Spine Tumors

Part II. Primary Spine Tumors in the Mobile Spine

6.  Modern Care of Benign Tumors of the Spine

7.  Low-Grade Spinal Malignancies: Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma

8.  High-Grade Primary Spinal Malignancies

9.  Extradural Spine Tumor Mimics

10.  Special Anatomical Zone: Sacral and Spinopelvic Tumors

11.  Special Anatomical Zone: Craniocervical Junction Tumors

Part III. Metastatic Spinal Disease

12.  Prognosis and Decision-Making in Spinal Metastases

13.  Economic Value in Spinal Tumor Surgery

14.  State of the Art for Metastatic Histologies

15.  Modern Technical Concepts in Surgical Metastatic Disease

16.  Radiotherapy in Metastatic Spinal Disease

Part IV. Minimally Invasive Approach and Current Technology

17.  Percutaneous Modalities

18.  Lateral Corpectomy for Spinal Neoplasms

19.  Minimally Invasive Approaches to Thoracic and Lumbar Metastatic Spine Disease

20.  Complex Reconstruction in Tumor Patients

21.  Radiation, Robotics, and Reconstructive Options in Spine Tumor Surgery

22.  Spine Tumors: Technological Advances

Back Matter