This study aimed to manage spinal cancer metastasis with Surgical vertebral body cementoplasty. Spinal metastases of cancer are frequent and their treatment strategy remains a problem. The present paper aims to present the technique of cementoplasty and its originality. Spine corporeal cementoplasty methods were performed in 9 patients with spine metastasis treated at Neurosurgery Department between 2002 and 2005. This series is composed of four women and five men. The average age of patients was 54 years. All patients were admitted to treating breast carcinoma’s metastasis, breast adenocarcinoma, colon cancer, pulmonary adenocarcinoma and melanoma. Metastasis was located on the cervical spine, thoracic spine and lumbar spine.
As a result, no case of cement leaking was observed. In eight patients, neurological deficit and pain were not there. In one patient, we noted the persistence of neurological deficit, but pain decreased. A post-operative radiological analysis showed good spine stability. Before their death, this treatment had improved their quality of life. In conclusion, the surgical cementoplasty described in this paper may be used to treat metastasis and spinal stabilisation. It is an alternative to palliative treatment of metastasis when it is not possible to perform vertebroplasty.
Ref: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/02688697.2014.994474
