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En Bloc Resection for Metastatic Disease

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This case will detail the aspects of en bloc resection in metastatic disease of the spine. It is indicated in very rare cases of solitary metastases or oligometastatic patients with primary tumors of good prognosis or highly likelyhood of local recurrence in case of intralesional resection.

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  1. Department for Spine Surgery, St. Franziskus Hospital, Münster, Germany

    Ulf Liljenqvist

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Bernhard Meyer

  2. Department of Spine Surgery, Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Offenbach, Germany

    Michael Rauschmann

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Liljenqvist, U. (2019). En Bloc Resection for Metastatic Disease. In: Meyer, B., Rauschmann, M. (eds) Spine Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98875-7_64

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