Treatment Strategy for Impending Instability in Spinal Metastases.

Conclusions: The rate of conversion to surgery in initially conservatively treated patients was about 33% in the first year. When a tumor is located in T3-T10 and less than 50% vertebral body collapse is present, surgery may be the better choice than conservative treatment. PMID: 32904056 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clin Orthop Surg Source Type: research