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Whole Body and Spinal Radiosurgery

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Over the past decade, minimally invasive surgical techniques have evolved in the field of spine surgery [1]. Such techniques follow a natural trend in surgery to minimize injury to normal tissue while obtaining the same or better surgical outcome. In a similar fashion, there has been substantial interest in applying minimally invasive techniques to the field of spine oncology. Malignancy involving the spine is an important clinical problem in oncology. Although primary tumors of the spine are relatively rare, they are typically very symptomatic and difficult to treat [2]. Secondary malignancy of the spinal column is extremely common. In a study of 2,000 patients with bony metastases, nearly 70% were found to have vertebral body metastases [3]. There are over 180,000 new cases of spinal metastases diagnosed in North America each year, with 20,000 clinical cases of spinal cord compression [2,4,5]. The incidence and prevalence of spine tumors is expected to rise in the future.

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  1. Canadian Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1), 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Andres M. Lozano (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery)

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Gerszten, P.C. (2009). Whole Body and Spinal Radiosurgery. In: Lozano, A.M., Gildenberg, P.L., Tasker, R.R. (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_74

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