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Table 3 Postoperative complication

From: Palliative transpedicular partial corpectomy without anterior vertebral reconstruction in lower thoracic and thoracolumbar junction spinal metastases

Complication

No. of patients

Neurologic progression

0

CSF leakage

1

Wound dehiscence/infection

0

Intraoperative mortality

0

Respiratory failure

1

GI bleeding/gastrointestinal perforation

2

Pulmonary embolism

0

Revision surgery

0

Local recurrence

1

30-day mortality

2