Surgical management of unknown primary tumors metastatic to the spine: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-92

  Aizenberg, Michele R ^a   Fox, Benjamin D ^b,c   Suki, Dima ^b   Mccutcheon, Ian E ^b   Rao, Ganesh ^b   Rhines, Laurence D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Metastasis; Oncology; Spine; Unknown primary tumor

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CERVICAL SPINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SPINE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855369365     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.9.SPINE11422     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Abbruzzese JL, Abbruzzese MC, Hess KR, Raber MN, Lenzi R, Frost P: Unknown primary carcinoma: natural history and prognostic factors in 657 consecutive patients. J Clin Oncol 12:1272-1280, 1994 (Pubitemid 24173944)
2. Abbruzzese JL, Abbruzzese MC, Lenzi R, Hess KR, Raber MN: Analysis of a diagnostic strategy for patients with suspected tumors of unknown origin. J Clin Oncol 13:2094-2103, 1995
3. Choi D, Crockard A, Bunger C, Harms J, Kawahara N, Mazel C, et al: Review of metastatic spine tumour classification and indications for surgery: the consensus statement of the Global Spine Tumour Study Group. Eur Spine J 19:215-222, 2010
4. Cox DR: Regression models and life tables. J R Stat Soc B 34:187-220, 1972
5. Destombe C, Botton E, Le Gal G, Roudaut A, Jousse-Joulin S, Devauchelle-Pensec V, et al: Investigations for bone metastasis from an unknown primary. Joint Bone Spine 74:85-89, 2007 (Pubitemid 46240983)
6. Doll DC, Ringenberg QS, Bickel JT, Yarbro JW: Epidural spinal cord compression as the presenting manifestation of tumor of unknown origin. Med Pediatr Oncol 18:280-282, 1990 (Pubitemid 20219918)
7. Gaber AO, Rice P, Eaton C, Pietrafitta JJ, Spatz E, Deckers PJ: Metastatic malignant disease of unknown origin. Am J Surg 145:493-497, 1983 (Pubitemid 13123708)
8. Hess KR, Abbruzzese MC, Lenzi R, Raber MN, Abbruzzese JL: Classification and regression tree analysis of 1000 consecutive patients with unknown primary carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 5:3403-3410, 1999
9. Hillen HF: Unknown primary tumours. Postgrad Med J 76:690-693, 2000
10. Kaplan EL, Meier P: Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations. J Am Stat Assoc 53:457-481, 1958
11. Katagiri H, Takahashi M, Inagaki J, Sugiura H, Ito S, Iwata H: Determining the site of the primary cancer in patients with skeletal metastasis of unknown origin: a retrospective study. Cancer 86:533-537, 1999 (Pubitemid 29347418)
12. Lenzi R, Hess KR, Abbruzzese MC, Raber MN, Ordoñez NG, Abbruzzese JL: Poorly differentiated carcinoma and poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of unknown origin: favorable subsets of patients with unknown-primary carcinoma? J Clin Oncol 15:2056-2066, 1997 (Pubitemid 27209537)
13. Mysorekar VV, Dandekar CP, Rao SG: Metastatic bone tumours. J Indian Med Assoc 96:74-76, 1998 (Pubitemid 28355178)
14. Nottebaert M, Exner GU, von Hochstetter AR, Schreiber A: Metastatic bone disease from occult carcinoma: a profile. Int Orthop 13:119-123, 1989 (Pubitemid 19147165)
15. Patchell RA, Tibbs PA, Regine WF, Payne R, Saris S, Kryscio RJ, et al: Direct decompressive surgical resection in the treatment of spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer: a randomised trial. Lancet 366:643-648, 2005 (Pubitemid 41176016)
16. Pavlidis N, Briasoulis E, Hainsworth J, Greco FA: Diagnostic and therapeutic management of cancer of an unknown primary. Eur J Cancer 39:1990-2005, 2003 (Pubitemid 37297755)
17. Piga A, Catalano V, Cardarelli N, Cellerino R: Metastatic tumor of unknown primary site. Ann Oncol 5:841-845, 1994 (Pubitemid 24341878)
18. Piga A, Gesuita R, Catalano V, Nortilli R, Cetto G, Cardillo F, et al: Identification of clinical prognostic factors in patients with unknown primary tumors treated with a platinum-based combination. Oncology 69:135-144, 2005 (Pubitemid 41376912)
19. Rades D, Fehlauer F, Veninga T, Stalpers LJ, Basic H, Hoskin PJ, et al: Functional outcome and survival after radiotherapy of metastatic spinal cord compression in patients with cancer of unknown primary. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 67:532-537, 2007 (Pubitemid 46108304)
20. Rao G, Suki D, Chakrabarti I, Feiz-Erfan I, Mody MG, McCutcheon IE, et al: Surgical management of primary and metastatic sarcoma of the mobile spine. J Neurosurg Spine 9:120-128, 2008
21. Ringenberg QS: Tumors of unknown origin. Med Pediatr Oncol 13:301-306, 1985
22. Saengnipanthkul S, Cowsuwon W, Wipulakorn K, Laupattarakasem W: Clinical diagnosis for metastatic adenocarcinoma of spine of unknown origin. A comparative study. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 16:473-474, 1991
23. Saengnipanthkul S, Jirarattanaphochai K, Laupattarakasem W, Laopaiboon M, Kowsuwon W, Rojviroj S: Osseous adenocarcinoma of unknown primary site: study of survival and prognostic factors. J Med Assoc Thai 75:502-507, 1992
24. Saengnipanthkul S, Jirarattanaphochai K, Rojviroj S, Sirichativapee W, Mahakkanukrauh C: Metastatic adenocarcinoma of the spine. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 17:427-430, 1992
25. Schapira DV, Jarrett AR: The need to consider survival, outcome, and expense when evaluating and treating patients with unknown primary carcinoma. Arch Intern Med 155:2050-2054, 1995
26. Schiff D, O'Neill BP, Suman VJ: Spinal epidural metastasis as the initial manifestation of malignancy: clinical features and diagnostic approach. Neurology 49:452-456, 1997 (Pubitemid 27368881)
27. Shih LY, Chen TH, Lo WH: Skeletal metastasis from occult carcinoma. J Surg Oncol 51:109-113, 1992
28. Smith PE, Krementz ET, Chapman W: Metastatic cancer without a detectable primary site. Am J Surg 113:633-637, 1967
29. Stewart JF, Tattersall MH, Woods RL, Fox RM: Unknown primary adenocarcinoma: incidence of overinvestigation and natural history. BMJ 1:1530-1533, 1979 (Pubitemid 9221152)
30. Tokuhashi Y, Matsuzaki H, Oda H, Oshima M, Ryu J: A revised scoring system for preoperative evaluation of metastatic spine tumor prognosis. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:2186-2191, 2005
31. Tomita K, Kawahara N, Kobayashi T, Yoshida A, Murakami H, Akamaru T: Surgical strategy for spinal metastases. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 26:298-306, 2001
32. Varadhachary GR, Abbruzzese JL, Lenzi R: Diagnostic strategies for unknown primary cancer. Cancer 100:1776-1785, 2004 (Pubitemid 38529553)
33. Williams BJ, Fox BD, Sciubba DM, Suki D, Tu SM, Kuban D, et al: Surgical management of prostate cancer metastatic to the spine. Clinical article. J Neurosurg Spine 10:414-422, 2009