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Preoperative Spinal Tumor Embolization: An Institutional Experience With Onyx., George M. Ghobrial, Md, Nohra El-Chalouhi, Md, James Harrop, Md, Richard Dalyai, Md, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, Md, L Fernando Gonzalez, Md, David Hasan, Md, Robert Rosenwasser, Md, Pascal Jabbour, Md
Preoperative Spinal Tumor Embolization: An Institutional Experience With Onyx., George M. Ghobrial, Md, Nohra El-Chalouhi, Md, James Harrop, Md, Richard Dalyai, Md, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, Md, L Fernando Gonzalez, Md, David Hasan, Md, Robert Rosenwasser, Md, Pascal Jabbour, Md
Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers
BACKGROUND: Preoperative embolization has the potential to decrease intraoperative blood loss and facilitate spinal cord decompression and tumor resection.
OBJECTIVE: We report our institutional experience with the embolization of hypervascular extradural spinal tumors with Onyx as well as earlier embolic agents in a series of 28 patients.
METHODS: A retrospective case review was conducted on patients undergoing preoperative transarterial embolization of a spinal tumor between 1995 and 2012 at our institution.
RESULTS: Twenty-eight patients met the inclusion criteria, with a mean age of 60.6 years. Twenty-eight patients had metastatic tumors. In 14 (50%) patients the metastases were from renal cell …