Cancer rehabilitation

A Cheville, S Smith, T Barksdale, A Asher - Braddom's Physical Medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer rehabilitation addresses physical impairments and progressive disablement at all
stages of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Although a majority of impairments are directly …

Vertebral compression fracture (VCF) after spine stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT): analysis of predictive factors

MVR Cunha, A Al-Omair, EG Atenafu… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are increasingly observed after spine
stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). The aim of this study was to determine the risk of …

Stereotactic body radiotherapy for spine metastases: a review of 24 Gy in 2 daily fractions

EK Nguyen, M Ruschin, B Zhang, H Soliman… - Journal of Neuro …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) has proven to be a highly effective treatment
for selected patients with spinal metastases. Randomized evidence shows improvements in …

Assessment of frailty indices and Charlson Comorbidity Index for predicting adverse outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for spine metastases: a national …

AA Elsamadicy, JL Havlik, B Reeves, J Sherman… - World neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this study was to assess the predictive ability of Metastatic Spinal
Tumor Frailty Index (MSTFI) and the Modified 5-Item Frailty Index (mFI-5) on adverse …

Impact of decompressive laminectomy on the functional outcome of patients with metastatic spinal cord compression and neurological impairment

A Younsi, L Riemann, M Scherer, A Unterberg… - Clinical & Experimental …, 2020 - Springer
Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) is a frequent phenomenon in advanced tumor
diseases with often severe neurological impairments. Affected patients are often treated by …

Surgical management and denosumab for aneurysmal bone cysts of the spine in an Australian tertiary paediatric centre

JA Vanderniet, D Tsinas, CL Wall, CM Girgis… - Calcified Tissue …, 2023 - Springer
Aneurysmal bone cysts (ABC) are rare osteolytic, benign but often locally aggressive
tumours of the long bones or vertebrae. For spinal ABC, surgical management, embolisation …

Georg Schmorl Prize of the German Spine Society (DWG) 2021: Spinal Instability Spondylodiscitis Score (SISS)—a novel classification system for spinal instability in …

F Schömig, Z Li, L Perka, TL Vu-Han, T Diekhoff… - European Spine …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Even though spinal infections are associated with high mortality and morbidity, their
therapy remains challenging due to a lack of established classification systems and widely …

[HTML][HTML] A scoring system for the preoperative evaluation of prognosis in spinal infection: the MSI-20 score

S Lener, C Wipplinger, A Lang, S Hartmann… - The Spine Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract BACKGROUND CONTEXT Spinal infection (SI) is a life-threatening condition and
its treatment remains challenging. Recent studies have supported early and aggressive …

Degeneration of the nucleus pulposus affects the internal volumetric strains and failure location of adjacent human metastatic vertebral bodies

G Cavazzoni, M Pasini, CL Le Maitre, E Dall'Ara… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2025 - Elsevier
Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is suspected to affect the distribution of stress and
strain near the vertebral endplates and in the underlying bone. This scenario is worsened by …

Radiation therapy, radiosurgery, chemotherapy and targeted therapies for metastatic spine tumors: WFNS Spine committee recommendations

V Sekar, J Walsh, LH Pearson, O Barzilai, S Sharif… - Neurosurgical …, 2024 - Springer
Objective This review aims to formulate the most current, evidence-based recommendations
regarding radiation therapy, radiosurgery, and chemotherapy for patients with metastatic …