What is a Spinal Tumour?How your surgeon will perform the Spinal Tumour Surgery in India?
There are three different types of spinal tumors depending on where they occur relative to the protective membranes of the spinal cord and these are as follows:
A) Vertebral Column Tumors: A tumour which involves the bones of the vertebral column is known as Vertebral Column Tumors and a majority of these tumors are metastatic which is an original or a primary tumour that developed in another organ and has to spread to the vertebral column through the bloodstream.
According to research, it has been found that the most common metastatic spinal tumors found in women are from the breast and lung. In men, it is from the prostate and lung.
Tumours which arises from vertebral bone and cartilage cells also occurs in the spine but the frequency is less. The examples of the primary spinal column tumors include osteoblastoma, osteoid osteoma, and giant cell tumour, which are benign bone tumours and oestrogenic sarcoma, chordoma, and chondrosarcoma which are malignant bone tumors.
B) Extramedullary tumors: These are the tumors which are located inside the Dura, however, outside the substance of the spinal cord.
C) Intramedullary tumors: These are the tumors which are located inside the substance of your spinal cord. These tumors usually arise from supporting cells within your spinal cord. The two types of intramedullary tumors which are (i) Astrocytoma’s and (ii) ependymomas occur with equal frequency. According to study, an astrocytoma is commonly found in children and ependymomas in adults.
How your surgeon will perform the Spinal Tumour Surgery in India?
The Spinal Tumour Surgery in India for different procedures varies from one another and these are as follows:
A) Spinal Tumour Surgery in India for Vertebral Column Tumors:
To remove a metastatic tumour from the spinal will not cure cancer, however, if your surgeon will perform the advanced treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and separation surgery will dramatically improve the causes of a metastatic tumour. There are other Spinal Tumour Surgery in India also available to shrink a tumour and relieve pain or caused by a tumour and maintain the stability of your spine.
Your surgeon will perform the radiation therapy, either conventional or stereotactic which significantly reduces the spinal pain. In radiation therapy, your surgeon will use the highly-focused beams of radiation which specifically point the area where a tumour is and will shrink a tumour. The surgeons generally, perform the radiation therapy to treat the painful tumors if they do not compress the spinal cord or destabilize the spine.
According to study, the tumours which do compress the spinal cord or destabilize the spine for such condition the Spinal Tumour Surgery in India is the beneficial and most of the benign tumors and many malignant vertebral column tumors can be totally removed with these advanced surgical techniques.
B) Spinal Tumour Surgery in India for Intradural-Extramedullary Tumors:
Your surgeon will perform the total resection Spinal Tumour Surgery in India to treat the intradural-extramedullary tumors and people who had undergone for this type of surgery has report minimal or no neurological problems after the surgery. However, if there are large phylum’s then the terminal ependymomas are often impossible to totally remove since they adhere to many spinal nerves. Radiation therapy may improve the postoperative results.
C) Spinal Tumour Surgery in India for Intramedullary Tumors:
Your surgeon will perform the Spinal Tumour Surgery in India for the intramedullary tumors which arise within the substance of the spinal cord itself and these are ependymomas, astrocytoma, and hemangioblastomas. Usually, your surgeon will perform the surgical excision for these types of tumours and their aim is to completely remove a tumour while preserving a maximum of the neurological function.
During this procedure of Spinal Tumour Surgery in India, your surgeon will carefully monitor you by using neurophysiological techniques like somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) and motor evoked potentials (MEPs). These advanced techniques allow your surgeons to monitor the function of your spinal cord to ensure the safe responding.
Intramedullary hemangioblastomas and ependymomas both are usually removed completely and can be differentiated from the surrounding of the spinal cord. In most of the cases, people may suffer from the temporary neurological problems after the surgery; however, these often can resolve. But in the case of intramedullary astrocytoma, it is difficult to remove a tumour completely. Since these tumours are usually slow-growing due to which patient may experience significant benefit as compared to the total removal.
A tumour which does not totally removed will usually be treated with postoperative radiation therapy.
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