174442

Factors Affecting Surgical Outcome of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: A Prospective One-year Follow-Up Study

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background Data: Identification of the prognostic factors of the surgical outcomes of intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCTs) is essential. Many studies have established that early surgical intervention was associated with better outcomes and enhanced survival rates. Purpose: This study investigated the prognostic factors of the one-year surgical outcomes of patients with IMSCTs. Study Design: A prospective clinical case study. Patients and Methods: Twenty patients with IMSCTs, who underwent surgery in our institution and were followed up at our clinic were recruited for this study. Patients were followed up for one year to assess postoperative functional outcomes using the modified McCormick Scale (MMS). The reported parameters included preoperative MMS, use of operative monitoring, use of ultrasonic aspirator, the extent of tumor resection, and postoperative adjuvant therapy. Results: Operatively, 85% of patients underwent laminectomy, 55% reported growth total resection (GTR), 55% intraoperative monitoring, 75% underwent ultrasonic aspiration, 55% had syrinx, and 20% had duraplasty. The preoperative MMS improved from 3.0 to 2.32 and 2.42 postoperatively at six months and one year of follow-up, respectively. Patients with postoperative MMS ≤3 were more likely to undergo GTR with better postoperative MMS than those with preoperative MMS >3 at six-month follow-up (81.8% vs. 25%, respectively; p = 0.013) and at one-year follow-up (84.4 vs. 0%, respectively; p = 0.001). Good preoperative MMS, use of ultrasonic aspirator, and operative monitoring were associated with better MMS. There were no significant associations between MMS at the sixth month and reported parameters including gender, symptoms duration, tumor location, bony work whether laminectomy or laminoplasty, number of segments involved, tumor histopathology, duraplasty, and postoperative adjuvant therapy. Conclusion: The findings of the current study showed that patients with GTR, good preoperative MMS, intraoperative monitoring, and ultrasonic aspirator usage might be associated with better functional outcomes. (2021ESJ229)

DOI

10.21608/esj.2021.60404.1167

Keywords

intramedullary, spinal cord tumors, Prognostic factors, Functional outcomes

Authors

First Name

ahmed

Last Name

khalil

MiddleName

mohamed

Affiliation

neurosurgery department,faculty of medicine ,alexandria university

Email

amk2010ns@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0003-1998-5164

First Name

hisham

Last Name

aboul-enein

MiddleName

adel

Affiliation

neurosurgey department,faculty of medicine,alexandria university

Email

hishamaabdelaziz@yahoo.com

City

alexandria

Orcid

0000-0003-4191-5090

First Name

Wael

Last Name

Foad

MiddleName

ahmed

Affiliation

Departmanet of neurosurgery, faculty of medicine, Alexandria university, Alexandria, Egypt.

Email

waelfouad_67@hotmail.com

City

alexandria

Orcid

0000-0003-0990-1588

First Name

ahmed

Last Name

fayed

MiddleName

abdel Aziz

Affiliation

neurosurgey department,faculty of medicine ,alexandria university

Email

dr.ahmedfayed@gmail.com

City

alexandria

Orcid

0000-0001-6346-3916

Volume

37

Article Issue

1

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24203

Issue Date

2021-01-01

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2021-02-12

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

35

Page End

46

Print ISSN

2314-8950

Online ISSN

2314-8969

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https://esj.journals.ekb.eg/article_174442.html

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174,442

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Clinical Articles

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433

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Publication Title

Egyptian Spine Journal

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https://esj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Factors Affecting Surgical Outcome of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: A Prospective One-year Follow-Up Study

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22 Jan 2023