Combined microneurosurgical and thoracoscopic resection for thoracic spine dumbbell tumors

作     者：WANG Zhen-yu LIANG Zheng LIU Bin CHENG Xiao-dong ZHANG Jia 

作者机构：Department of Neurosurgery Peking University Third Hospital Beijing 100083 China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Medical Journal》 (中华医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第121卷第12期

页      面：1137-1139页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：spinal canal dumbbell tumor endoscopy minimal invasive surgery 

摘      要：Dumbbell tumors have both intraspinal and anterior paraspinal components connected through anintervertebral foramen. Most of these tumors are neurogenic and include schwannomas, neurofibromas, ganglioneuromas and neuroblastomas. ***, more than 90% of these tumors are benign.2. Dumbbell tumors of the thoracic spine are particularly difficult to expose and remove by virtue of their location and relationship with vital structures of the thoracic cavity. The traditional surgical approach for removing these tumors has been using either combined anterior thoracotomy and posterior neurosurgical procedures or the lateral extracavitary approach. We present our experience with resection of three dumbbell tumors with a combined microneurosurgical and thoracoscopic procedures in a single stage.