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Impact of spinal cord compression from intradural and epidural spinal tumors on perioperative symptoms—implications for surgical decision making
Spinal cord or cauda equina compression (SCC) is an increasing challenge in clinical oncology due to a higher prevalence of long-term cancer survivors. Our aim was to determine the clinical relevance of SCC re...
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Treatment of large thoracic and lumbar paraspinal schwannoma
Paraspinal neurogenic tumors usually expand into the mediastinum and retroperitoneum and can reach a considerable size before they become symptomatic. Such large tumors are rare. We describe 14 cases of large ...
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The impact of fluorescence guidance on spinal intradural tumour surgery
5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA)-based fluorescence-guided surgery was shown to be beneficial for cerebral malignant gliomas. Extension of this technique for resection of meningiomas and cerebral metastasis has b...
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Local inflammation and devascularization — in vivo mechanisms of the “bystander effect” in VPC-mediated HSV-Tk/GCV gene therapy for human malignant glioma
Somatic gene therapy with the herpes simplex virus type I thymidine kinase gene/ganciclovir (HSV-Tk/GCV) system and murine retroviral vector producer cells (VPCs) was introduced as a new adjuvant treatment mod...