This book contains the expert knowledge base of the field's most experienced practitioners in the field of extradural bone and soft tissue malignancy. Chapters include modern classification, advanced anatomy, imaging, and the concepts around a multidisciplinary approach. Since treating primary tumors requires very different strategies than those used in metastatic tumors, the book devotes separate sections to each sub-discipline. For primary tumors, the text covers both benign and malignant entities and addresses unique anatomic zones such as the sacrum and skull base which require special technical expertise. For metastatic disease, the authors address the ever-important concept of prognosis, and discuss how to answer the eternal question: "How much should we do, and for whom?". Chapters also explore the state of the art of treatment for the "big 5" histologies (renal cell, lung, breast, prostate, thyroid), with a special chapter emphasis on separation surgery and the now-standard combinatorial care between radiation and surgery. In addition, an entire section is dedicated to evolving surgical technology, which covers the use of minimally invasive techniques, navigation, robotics, 3D-printing, and other evolving technologies for spine tumor care. Infrequently-considered topics, such as how to evaluate a lesion which may be a tumor-mimic, and how to think about economic value in spine tumor surgery, are also presented.
Surgical Spinal Oncology serves to help surgeons approach difficult clinical scenarios with a thoughtful, collaborative approach that leverages the best technology and thinking the field of spine oncology has to offer.

Advanced spinal anatomy and applications for the spine tumor surgeon

Modern Pathology in Spinal Tumors
Tumor Classification and Staging Systems in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery
Advanced imaging technologies in the evaluation and staging of adult spine tumors
Modern Multidisciplinary Care in Spine Tumors
Modern care of benign tumors of the spine
Low Grade Spinal Malignancies: Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma
High-grade primary spinal malignancies
Extradural Spine Tumor Mimics
Special anatomical zone: Sacral and spinopelvic tumors
Special Anatomical Zone: Craniocervical Junction Tumors
Prognosis and Decision Making in Spinal Metastases
Economic Value in Spinal Tumor Surgery
State of the Art for Metastatic Histologies
Modern technical concepts in surgical metastatic disease
Radiotherapy in metastatic spinal disease
Percutaneous Modalities
Lateral Corpectomy for Spinal Neoplasms
Minimally Invasive Approaches to Thoracic and Lumbar Metastatic Spine Disease
Complex Reconstruction in Tumor Patients
Radiation, robotics, and reconstructive options in spine tumor surgery
Spine Tumors: Technological Advances.