[Neurinoma of the spinal canal. Clinical aspects and long-term results]

Within a period of 27 years, 65 patients were operated on because of a spinal neurinoma. 34 women and 31 men had fallen ill, the average age at the time of operation being 42 years. Preoperatively 33 patients already showed an incomplete or complete transverse lesion with the mean duration of the disease being 40 months. After the operation 75.3 per cent of the neurinoma patients showed an improvement. 66.1 per cent were able to walk on their own, 9.2 per cent needed support. 41.5 per cent became again fit to work. Six patients (9.2%) are in need of care. The total lethality, related to three years post operationem, was 10.7 per cent.