Surgical treatment in patients with kidney cancer metastasizing to the spine

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The data of 60 patients with metastatic kidney cancer involving the vertebrae who had undergone different-volume surgery were retrospectively analyzed. The role of surgical volume was assessed. In patients with solitary spinal metastases, their radical removal was found to lead to better quality of life and longer survival. Puncture vertebroplasty with bone cement in patients with spinal metastatic involvement permits one to avoid traumatic fixing operations, without reducing the median survival at the same time.

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S. V. Kostritsky

Clinic of Urology, S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg

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Email: Stas.medic@bk.ru
Russian Federation

V. I. Shirokorad

Moscow City Cancer Hospital Sixty-Two

Russian Federation

D. V. Semenov

City Clinical Oncology Dispensary, Saint Petersburg

Russian Federation

D. A. Ptashnikov

R.R. Vreden Russian Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Saint Petersburg

Russian Federation

M. Yu. Shchupak

Moscow City Cancer Hospital Sixty-Two

Russian Federation

A. N. Makhson

Moscow City Cancer Hospital Sixty-Two

Russian Federation

G. M. Manikhas

City Clinical Oncology Dispensary, Saint Petersburg

Russian Federation

A. Yu. Shestaev

Clinic of Urology, S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg

Russian Federation

I. P. Kostyuk

Clinic of Urology, S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg

Russian Federation

P. A. Karlov

City Clinical Oncology Dispensary, Saint Petersburg

Russian Federation

P. P. Mitrofanov

Clinic of Urology, S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg

Russian Federation

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