[Spinal tumors [71 cases]]

ABSTRACT

Our study is about 71 cases of the spine tumors treated in the neurosugical department during 10 years [82-92]. A male predominance has been noticed [59%], and the average age was 43 years. Ninty three percent of the patients has been examinated before the first year. The symptomatology that prevailed at the beginning of the disease was the pain. The dorsal spine was the most affected [45%]. The radiologie exams [radiography, myelography and CT Scann] grave a quite exact idea about the lesions. Fifty six patients [80%] was operated. The surgery consisted of a partial or total removal of the tumor in 13 cases and of a laminectomly in the other cases. Pathology showed a prevailing of the metastatic lesion [60%]. The evolution was characterised by an improvement 19,7%, no change state in 56%, an aggravation in 15% and a death in 7%