OBJECTIVE: Recently, surgical outcomes of @entity1 with intramedullary @entity4097 (IMSCT) have been improved due to advances of medicine. The purposes of our study were to evaluate the recent neurological outcomes after surgical treatment of IMSCTs. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 69 @entity1 who underwent surgical treatment for IMSCT in our hospital between 1998 and 2013. @entity1 's age, sex, histological origin and grade, @entity5 location, @entity5 extension, preoperative neurological state, initial presenting symptom, and extend of @entity5 resection were analyzed to evaluate predictive factors that affect postoperative functional outcome. RESULTS: The neurological states at last follow-up were improved in 16 @entity1 (23.2%), unchanged in 47 (68.1%), aggravated in 6 (8.7%). In all @entity1 , the functional outcomes were good in 52 @entity1 (75.4%), fair in 10 (14.5%), poor in 7 (10.1%). Preoperative good neurological state was the strongest positive predictor of good functional outcome (p<0.05). In @entity5 location, functional outcomes of @entity5 were poor than those in cervical and conus medullaris region (p=0.011). High-grade @entity5 shows poor outcome compare to low-grade @entity5 (p=0.03). CONCLUSION: The most reliable predicting factor of surgical outcome was the preoperative neurological state. In addition, IMSCTs in thoracic region and high-grade @entity5 showed relatively bad outcome and had a risk of postoperative morbidity.

Neurological outcome after surgical treatment of intramedullary XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'Patient'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['tumor', 'thoracic tumors'] @entity4097 :: ('MESH:D013120', 'Disease') :: ['spinal cord tumors']
@entity4097 :: (MESH:D013120,Disease) :: ['spinal cord tumors']
