Spinal metastases are an increasing societal health burden secondary to improvements in
systemic therapy. Estimates indicate that 100,000 or more people have symptomatic spine …

Systemic assessment is a pillar in the neurological, oncological, mechanical, and systemic
(NOMS) decision-making framework for the treatment of patients with spinal metastatic …

Abstract Background Context Accurately predicting the survival of patients with spinal
metastases is important for guiding surgical intervention. The SORG machine-learning (ML) …

Abstract BACKGROUND CONTEXT The SORG machine-learning algorithms were
previously developed for preoperative prediction of overall survival in spinal metastatic …

Neuro-oncological diseases are rare and their fatality rate is increased in patients due to
advance disease development despite of the recent outcomes on neuro-oncological …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Historically, spine surgeons used expected postoperative
survival of 3-months to help select candidates for operative intervention in spinal metastasis …

BACKGROUND Patient selection is critical for spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)
given potential for serious adverse effects and the associated costs. OBJECTIVE To identify …

Simple Summary Spinal epidural metastases are a common complication of malignancies
that can compromise spinal stability and subsequently lead to neurologic deficits in addition …

Accurate prediction of patient survival is an essential component of the preoperative
evaluation of patients with spinal metastases. Over the past quarter of a century, a number of …

Background The clinical relevance of patient-reported outcomes score changes is often
unclear. Especially in patients undergoing surgery due to lower extremity metastases–where …