440 / 671
Selecting patients for treatment
• Easy
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Pain only, stable spine
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Progressive instability with neurological complaints on 1 level
• Less easy
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Favourable prognosis, pain only, but MSCC on MRI on 1 level
• Difficult
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Neurological complaints on 3 not-adjacent levels
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Radiosensitive primary tumor
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Young age / expected prolonged prognosis (years?)