Survival and Clinical Outcomes in Surgically Treated Patients With Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression: Results of the Prospective Multicenter AOSpine Study

Abstract

Surgical intervention, as an adjunct to radiation and chemotherapy, provides immediate and sustained improvement in pain, neurologic, functional, and HRQoL outcomes, with acceptable risks in patients with a focal symptomatic MESCC lesion who have at least a 3 month survival prognosis.