Surgical Management and Factors Affecting the Prognosis for Patients with Thyroid Cancer Spinal Metastases: A Retrospective Analysis of 52 Consecutive Patients from a Single Center

摘要

BACKGROUND: Thyroid cancer, one of the most common endocrine malignancies in developed areas and China, is associated with favorable prognosis. However, the presence of spinal metastases will remarkably reduce the life expectancy for patients with thyroid cancer. In addition, limited information is available about such disease.