Long-segment intraspinal schwannomas resection: What is the minimum number of laminectomy levels required?
Zhiyu Xi, Li Jia, Yingfeng Wang, Qiyu Jia, Chengyu Xia, Jiang Liu · 2025
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Description
Zhiyu Xi and co-authors ask, in a 2025 study, how few spine levels a surgeon must open to take out a long nerve-sheath tumor in full. The old rule says open each level the tumor spans, for a full view. That costs bone and risks a weak spine. The team read 11 past cases where tumors spanned three or more levels. In each, the cut was held to the key levels alone, with the tumor first caved from in its shell, then freed by fine work. All tumors came out in full by that path.
Bone was cut at two levels in six cases and at one level in five. Mean surgery time was about 119 minutes. All patients left with their signs gone and no grave setbacks. In a mean of about two years on, no spine gave way and no tumor came back.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zhiyu Xi, Li Jia, Yingfeng Wang, Qiyu Jia, Chengyu Xia, Jiang Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |