From the *Combined Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Spine Program, Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; †Iowa Spine and Brain Institute, Waterloo, IA; ‡Neurosurgery Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; §Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA; ¶Department of Orthopaedics, University of California, San Francisco, CA; ∥Department of Neurological Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA;**Toronto Western Hospital Spinal Program, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ††Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Ospedale Maggiore, Ausl Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ‡‡Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA; §§Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ¶¶Department of Orthopedics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ∥∥Department of Orthopedic Oncology, Regina Elena Institute, Rome, Italy; ***Department of Orthopaedics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; †††Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; ‡‡‡Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; §§§Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ¶¶¶Department of Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; ∥∥∥Department of Radiation Oncology, MA General Hospital, Boston, MA; ****Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; ††††Department of Oncology & Orthopedic Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; ‡‡‡‡Departments of Medical Oncology and §§§§Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX; ¶¶¶¶Department of Neurological Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY; ∥∥∥∥Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan; *****National Center for Spinal Disorders, Budapest, Hungary; †††††Catholic University of Parana, Curitiba-Pr, Brazil; ‡‡‡‡‡H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Departments of Neurosurgery and Interdisciplinary Oncology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL; §§§§§Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; and ¶¶¶¶¶Division of Neurosurgery, University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Acknowledgment date: August 12, 2009. First revision date: October 29, 2009. Second revision date: December 3, 2009. Acceptance date: April 2, 2010.
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
Corporate/Industry funds were received in support of this work. No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Charles G. Fisher, MD, MHSc, Deparement of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, 818 W. 10th Avenue, 6th floor, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1M9; E-mail: [email protected].
