Application of the NSE score (Neurology-Stability-Epidural compression assessment) to establish the need for surgery in spinal metastases of elderly patients: a multicenter investigation.
Giuseppe Di PernaBianca BaldassarreDaniele ArmocidaRaffaele De MarcoAlessandro PesaresiSerena BadellinoMarco BozzaroSalvatore PetroneLucio BuffoniCristina SonettoEmmanuele De LucaDavide OttavianiFulvio TartaraFrancesco ZengaMarco AjelloNicola MarengoMichele LanotteRoberto AltieriFrancesco CertoAlessandro PesceAngelo PompucciAlessandro FratiUmberto RicardiGiuseppe Maria BarbagalloDiego GarbossaFabio CofanoPublished in: European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society (2024)
Far from the need or the aim to build dogmatic algorithms, the goal of preserving a proper performance status plays a key role in a modern oncological management: functional outcomes of the multicentric study group showed that the NSE score represents a reliable tool to establish the need for surgery also for elderly patients.