Surgical treatment of solitary intradural extramedullary spinal cord metastases from solid cancers of non-neurogenic origin. A multicenter study

Intradural extramedullary spinal metastases (IESM) represent an extremely rare manifestation of systemic cancer. We evaluated the surgical indications, complications and outcome in a series of 43 patients with solitary intradural extramedullary metastases originating from solid cancer of non-neurogenic origin. Patients’ age, histopathological diagnoses of primary cancer, tumor size, spinal location, and extramedullary tumor dissemination were...