Diagnostic Approach, Applied Anatomy, and Multidisciplinary Care
Front Matter
Pages 1-1
Advanced Spinal Anatomy and Applications for the Spine Tumor Surgeon
Elie Massaad, John H. Shin
Pages 3-20
Modern Pathology in Spinal Tumors
Brett M. Mahon, Ira J. Miller
Pages 21-26
Tumor Classification and Staging Systems in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery
Michael T. Nolte, Matthew Colman
Pages 27-37
Advanced Imaging Technologies in the Evaluation and Staging of Adult Spine Tumors
Anick Nater, Michael G. Fehlings
Pages 39-57
Modern Multidisciplinary Care in Spine Tumors
Brittany L. Siontis
Pages 59-66
Primary Spine Tumors in the Mobile Spine
Front Matter
Pages 67-67
Modern Care of Benign Tumors of the Spine
Oren Zarnett, Nathaniel E. Schaffer, Ilyas S. Aleem, Ahmad Nassr, Raphaële Charest-Morin
Pages 69-88
Low-Grade Spinal Malignancies: Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma
Gideon Blumstein, Benjamin Kelley, Scott Nelson, Don Young Park, Francis Hornicek
Pages 89-113
High-Grade Primary Spinal Malignancies
Marco Girolami, Riccardo Ghermandi, Alessandro Gasbarrini
Pages 115-129
Extradural Spine Tumor Mimics
Ilyas M. Eli, Lubdha M. Shah, Andrew T. Dailey
Pages 131-152
Special Anatomical Zone: Sacral and Spinopelvic Tumors
Jean-Paul Wolinsky, Luis G. Fernandez III
Pages 153-172
Special Anatomical Zone: Craniocervical Junction Tumors
Mena G. Kerolus, John E. O’Toole
Pages 173-189
Metastatic Spinal Disease
Front Matter
Pages 191-191
Prognosis and Decision-Making in Spinal Metastases
Andrew J. Schoenfeld, Marco L. Ferrone
Pages 193-201
Economic Value in Spinal Tumor Surgery
Aditya Mazmudar, Alpesh A. Patel
Pages 203-209
State of the Art for Metastatic Histologies
Varan Haghshenas, Arash J. Sayari, Ahmed N. Shehabeldin, Rex A. W. Marco
Pages 211-233
Modern Technical Concepts in Surgical Metastatic Disease
Michiel E. R. Bongers, Joseph H. Schwab
Pages 235-241
Radiotherapy in Metastatic Spinal Disease
Mehee Choi, Dian Wang, Aidnag Z. Diaz
Pages 243-252
Minimally Invasive Approach and Current Technology
Front Matter
Pages 253-253
Percutaneous Modalities
Sreekumar Madassery, Bulent Arslan, David M. Tabriz
Pages 255-274
Lateral Corpectomy for Spinal Neoplasms
Philip Louie, Matthew Colman
Pages 275-286
Minimally Invasive Approaches to Thoracic and Lumbar Metastatic Spine Disease
Eric Vess, Bowen Qui, Addisu Mesfin
Pages 287-296
Complex Reconstruction in Tumor Patients
Alexander R. Vaccaro, Srikanth N. Divi, Waqaas A. Hassan
Pages 297-334
Radiation, Robotics, and Reconstructive Options in Spine Tumor Surgery
Matthew L. Goodwin, Daniel M. Sciubba
Pages 335-356
Spine Tumors: Technological Advances
Arash J. Sayari, Matthew Colman, Kern Singh
Pages 357-369

This book contains the expert knowledge base of the field’s most experienced practitioners in the field of extradural bone and soft tissue malignancy. Chapters include modern classification, advanced anatomy, imaging, and the concepts around a multidisciplinary approach. Since treating primary tumors requires very different strategies than those used in metastatic tumors, the book devotes separate sections to each sub-discipline. For primary tumors, the text covers both benign and malignant entities and addresses unique anatomic zones such as the sacrum and skull base which require special technical expertise. For metastatic disease, the authors address the ever-important concept of prognosis, and discuss how to answer the eternal question: “How much should we do, and for whom?”. Chapters also explore the state of the art of treatment for the “big 5” histologies (renal cell, lung, breast, prostate, thyroid), with a special chapter emphasis on separation surgery and the now-standard combinatorial care between radiation and surgery. In addition, an entire section is dedicated to evolving surgical technology, which covers the use of minimally invasive techniques, navigation, robotics, 3D-printing, and other evolving technologies for spine tumor care. Infrequently-considered topics, such as how to evaluate a lesion which may be a tumor-mimic, and how to think about economic value in spine tumor surgery, are also presented.
Surgical Spinal Oncology serves to help surgeons approach difficult clinical scenarios with a thoughtful, collaborative approach that leverages the best technology and thinking the field of spine oncology has to offer.