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According to their topographical relationship to dura mater and spinal cord, spinal tumours are generally classified as extradural, intradural extramedullary, and intradural intramedullary. Extradural tumours, accounting for approximately 65% of all spinal tumours, are further subdivided into primary and secondary lesions. Primary tumours of the spine comprise benign lesions, such as osteochondromas, osteoid osteomas, osteoblastomas, haemangiomas, giant cell tumours, eosinophilic granulomas and aneurysmal bone cysts, and malignant lesions, including tumours such as osteosarcomas, Ewing’s sarcoma, multiple myelomas, solitary plasmocytomas, chordomas and chondrosarcomas. Since these primary lesions of the bone are less common than secondary tumours of the spine and in addition are rarely encountered in neurosurgical patients, they shall be mentioned here only in brief, and the appropriate orthopaedic textbooks and publications must be consulted for further information.
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Marquardt, G., Gerlach, R., Seifert, V., Cioni, B. (2010). Spinal Tumours. In: Lumenta, C., Di Rocco, C., Haase, J., Mooij, J. (eds) Neurosurgery. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79565-0_12
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