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Orthoplastic Surgery & Orthopedic Care International Journal

Comparative Multi-Segment with Short-Segment Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors

  • Open or Close Jian-Jun Sun*

    Department of Neurosurgery, Peking University, China

    *Corresponding author: Jian-Jun Sun, Doctorate’s degree, Associate professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China

Submission: February 24, 2018; Published: May 22, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/OOIJ.2018.01.000523

ISSN: 2578-0069
Volume1 Issue5

Abstract

Intramedullary primary spinal cord tumors are rare, accounting for 4-10% of all central nervous system tumor [1-3]. Multi-segment involvement where the intramedullary tumor length occupying 3 or more vertebral body levels is considered as multi-segment intramedullary spinal cord tumor (MSICT) [4], and has a much lower incidence (about 1 MSICT for every 10 spinal tumors) [5,6]. Intramedullary primary spinal cord tumors occupying one and two vertebral body levels is considered as seldom segments tumors. Similar to several studies on intramedullary primary spinal cord tumors [1-5], there are also several studies on multi-segments intramedullary primary spinal cord tumors [6-8].

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