Minimally Invasive Spinal Stabilization with Denosumab before Total Spondylectomy for a Collapsing Lower Lumbar Spinal Giant Cell Tumor.

Keitaro Minato, Toru Hirano, Hiroyuki Kawashima, Tetsuro Yamagishi, Kei Watanabe, Masayuki Ohashi, Akira Ogose, Naoto Endo

Acta medica Okayama 2021 Feb

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A 21-year-old man consulted our hospital for treatment of a spinal giant cell tumor (GCT) of Enneking stage III. Lower lumbar-spine tumors and severe spinal canal stenosis are associated with high risk for surgical mor-bidity. Stability was temporarily secured with a percutaneous pedicle screw fixation in combination with deno-sumab, which shrank the tumor. Total en bloc spondylectomy was then performed 6 months after initiation of denosumab, and the patient was followed for 3 years. There was no local recurrence, and bony fusion was obtained. Minimally invasive surgery and denosumab allowed safer and easier treatment of a collapsing lower lumbar extra-compartmental GCT.

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Keitaro Minato, Toru Hirano, Hiroyuki Kawashima, Tetsuro Yamagishi, Kei Watanabe, Masayuki Ohashi, Akira Ogose, Naoto Endo. Minimally Invasive Spinal Stabilization with Denosumab before Total Spondylectomy for a Collapsing Lower Lumbar Spinal Giant Cell Tumor. Acta medica Okayama. 2021 Feb;75(1):95-101