Quantifying the impact of surgical decompression on quality of life and identification of factors associated with outcomes in patients with symptomatic metastatic spinal cord compression.

CONCLUSIONS: The mean QALY gained from surgical decompression in the first 6 months and first year equals 1.2 months and 5 months of life in perfect health, respectively. These findings suggest that surgery might also be beneficial to patients with life expectancy < 6 months. PMID: 32244218 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - April 2, 2020 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Lak AM, Rahimi A, Abunimer AM, Tafel I, Devi S, Premkumar A, Ida F, Lu Y, Chi JH, Tanguturi S, Groff MW, Zaidi HA Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research