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Prospective spine at risk program for prevalence of intracanal spine lesions in pediatric hereditary multiple osteochondromas

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Abstract

Study design

Retrospective cohort study

Objectives

To determine prevalence of hereditary multiple osteochondromas (HMO) and utility of MRI surveillance in a prospective Spine at Risk (SAR) program.

Summary of background data

Unidentified intraspinal exostoses in HMO can lead to neurologic injury in children during sedated procedures but no MRI guidelines exist. We sought to determine the prevalence and age of intraspinal exostoses from MRIs, and indications for MRI surveillance.

Methods

Retrospective review was performed of pediatric HMO patients who underwent total spine MRIs at a single institution after a prospective SAR program was instituted. Charts were reviewed for MRI indication and findings, symptoms, surgery, and location of other exostoses. Fisher’s exact test was used to compare categorical variables and T test to compare continuous variables. Predictive value of pelvic/rib exostoses was calculated for intraspinal lesions.

Results

Forty-three patients with HMO underwent total spine MRIs with average age of 11.5 years. Fifteen (35%) patients had exostoses on vertebral column, eight (19%) had intra-canal spinal exostoses. Higher prevalence of spine lesions occurred in symptomatic patients than asymptomatic (any spinal lesion: 73% prevalence in symptomatic vs 22% in asymptomatic, p < 0.005; intra-canal spinal lesion: 46% vs 9%, p < 0.05). Only two of the 11 ‘symptomatic presentations’ could be attributable to intracanal spinal exostoses. Only one intra-canal exostosis found on asymptomatic surveillance was treated surgically. Presence of pelvic or rib exostoses were not strongly predictive of intra-canal lesions (23% PPV, 85% NPV, 63% sensitivity, 51% specificity).

Conclusions

Even with the presence of intra-canal exostoses, true symptomatic lesions are rare. Rib and pelvic lesions were not predictive of intra-canal lesions in our population. We recommend obtaining MRIs at time of preoperative evaluation in asymptomatic children old enough to not need sedation, or in patients with true neurologic symptoms to prevent unnecessary sedation of younger children for surveillance MRI.

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III.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Catphuong L. Vu, Antionnette W. Lindberg, Klane K. White & Jennifer M. Bauer

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, USA

    Antionnette W. Lindberg, Viviana Bompadre, Klane K. White & Jennifer M. Bauer

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Vu, C.L., Lindberg, A.W., Bompadre, V. et al. Prospective spine at risk program for prevalence of intracanal spine lesions in pediatric hereditary multiple osteochondromas. Spine Deform 8, 1069–1074 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43390-020-00130-4

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