Prognostic factors in spinal chordoma: A systematic review

Discovering reliable prognostic factors for spinal chordoma remains a challenge. We attempted to identify evidence-based prognostic factors in the literature since its inception and to establish pooled relative risks (RR) of such factors. MEDLINE and Embase search (inception to December 2014). Two reviewers independently selected papers involving spinal chordoma prognostic factors, and studied them for methodological quality and valuable new factors. Subsequently, we attempted to pool the results. Of 1465 citations, we studied 65 papers closely, and found several "new" prognostic factors. However, only eight papers were of adequate quality for analysis. Location in the upper cervical spine (pooled RR=5.46, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.23-13.34), worse preoperative Frankel score (pooled RR=2.77, 95% CI: 1.73-4.42), intralesional surgery (pooled RR=2.68, 95% CI: 1.66-4.32), greater extent of invasion (pooled RR=5.09, 95% CI: 1.49-17.41), and revision surgery (pooled RR=2.42, 95% CI: 1.34-4.36) appeared to be independent factors for worse outcome. Despite the wealth of literature available, disappointingly few papers are of sufficient quality for drawing valid conclusions related to spinal chordoma prognostic factors. The heterogeneity of the studies renders results pooling almost impossible. More accurate individual prognostication requires methodologically high-quality studies with more uniform study design and data reporting..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:139

Enthalten in:

Clinical neurology and neurosurgery - 139(2015), Seite 110

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zou, Ming-Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Wei [Sonstige Person]
Wang, Xiao-Bin [Sonstige Person]
Li, Jing [Sonstige Person]
Lv, Guo-Hua [Sonstige Person]
Deng, You-Wen [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Chordoma
Factors
Humans
Kinases
Medical prognosis
Meta-analysis
Mortality
Multivariate analysis
Prognosis
Proteins
Quality
Rodents
Spine
Studies
Surgery
Survival analysis
Vascular endothelial growth factor

doi:

10.1016/j.clineuro.2015.09.012

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1967844186