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Post doctoral Spine fellow at Indian Spinal Injuries Center, New Delhi, India under Dr. H S Chhabra from March 2018 till June 2020
D-1 Rajajipuram , Lucknow India
Uttar Pradesh, 226017
A spinal bone tumour is an abnormal growth of tissue of bone in the spine. Spinal tumours result in severe pain, along with neurological defects. They can suppress the nerves too. Spinal tumours may arise in the cervical, thoracic, or lumbosacral regions.
The spinal tumours weaken the bone and may lead to chronic back pain and affect the spinal cord’s underlying nerves. Due to this nerve compression, the patient’s leg pain and numbness in the legs. These tumours can be benign or malignant. These spinal tumours may be primary tumours whose cells of origin is the spinal tissue or secondary tumours which spread via the bloodstream from other parts.
The spine tumour surgery mainly removes the tumour that causes continuous back or neck pain, balance problems, leg pain, leg numbness, bladder dysfunction, bowel discomfort. If the tumour is diagnosed early and treated successfully, it is possible to prevent further complications in the spine. Spine surgery helps in restoring spine functionality, which was affected by the tumours.
Sometimes tumors arise from the substance of the spinal cord. These are similar to the tumors which appear from the brain nerve tissue and these are handled by the brain surgeons.
Osteoid osteoma: It is a non-cancerous bone tumors that usually develops in the long bones such as thigh bone and shin bone. This type of tumours do not spread throughout the body but causes severe pain and discomfort.
Osteoblastoma: It is a rare primary neoplasm of bone and non cancerous tumour closely related to osteoid osteoma. This generally develops in the bones of spine, legs, hands and feet.
Giant cell tumour: It is a non-cancerous and aggressive tumour usually develops near the joint or at metaphysis of long bones. These are mostly observed in young adults of age 20-40.
Chordoma: It is a rare type of cancerous tumour that generally occurs anywhere in the spine from the base to the tailbone. This tumour grows slowly extends into the bone and to the surrounding soft tissue.
The tumour in the spine may lead to severe discomforts that need immediate medical care or surgery. These spine discomforts may include.
The main goals of the spine tumour surgery are to
Comprehensive diagnostic care is provided by Dr Abhinav Srivastava to diagnose the spinal tumour. Depending on the severity of the tumour, the spine surgeon will use different surgical procedures for removing the tumours. The tests to diagnose the severity and complexity of the tumours are:-
The optimal treatment for a spinal tumour depends on the type and its location. Most of the spinal tumours are removed using the surgery. This surgery helps in removing the tumours that suppress the underlying nerves of the spine. This spine tumours removal surgery aims to preserve the spine’s neurological functionality and also eliminates the pain caused by it.
Depending on the type of spinal issues such as osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, chordoma, or Ewing’s sarcoma and its location, there are different types of treatment procedures. These surgical methods for the removal of the spinal tumour may include:
Surgery: Spinal tumour surgery removes tumours. Based on the nature and the staging of the tumor appropriate treatment techniques are used.
Minimally invasive techniques are used when appropriate and in late stages only debulking is possible to reduce the tumor load on the patient.
Radiation Therapy: This is a non-surgical procedure that delivers high radiation beams to treat spinal tumours. This treatment does not remove the tumours immediately like surgery, and it slowly disappears with time. These are given by the radiotherapist.
Chemotherapy: This is the process of removing cancer cells in the spinal area permanently by using anti-cancer drugs. These treatment are given by the Medical oncologist.
The spinal tumour surgery cost may vary depending on the several factors which includes.
Recovery time depends on:-
The spine surgeon will help in several stages of spinal tumours treatment.