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Published on: February 9, 2024
Two-level total en bloc lumbar spondylectomy with dural resection for metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Henry E Aryan1, Frank L Acosta, Christopher P Ames
1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, A868, San Francisco, CA 94143-0350, USA. aryanh@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
Abstract:
Only five reports of multilevel spondylectomy for tumor have been reported in the literature, mostly in the thoracic spine. We report a successful two-level spondylectomy with en bloc dural resection in a patient with metastatic renal carcinoma to the L3 and L4 vertebrae.