Chia-Jung Hsieh, Chun-Yu Wu, Yen-Heng Lin, Yu-Cheng Huang, Wen-Chi Yang, Tom Wei-Wu Chen, Wei-Li Ma, Wei-Hsin Lin, Feng-Ming Hsu, Furen Xiao, Shih-Hung Yang, Dar-Ming Lai, Chang-Mu Chen, Shin-Yi Chao, Fon-Yih Tsuang
OBJECTIVE: The present study is to analyze the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak and the subsequent lockdown on the outcomes of spinal metastasis patients. METHODS: The study was a retrospective analysis of data from a prospective cohort study. All patients underwent surgical intervention for spinal metastases between January 2019 and December 2021 and had at least 3 months of postoperative follow-up. The primary outcome was overall mortality during the 4 different stages (pre-COVID-19 era, COVID-19 pandemic except in Taiwan, national lockdown, lifting of the lockdown)...
December 2023: Neurospine