Neurologic and Neurophysiologic Assessment of Clinical Course in Patients With Intraspinal Processes

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Tumor

Treatments: Procedure: Diagnostic

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01105520

ZU-XYZ-003

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients included in the study are treated at the Klinik für Neurochirurgie USZ. The clinical course is documented at Paraplegikerzentrum Balgrist using validated diagnostic procedures (e.g. SCIM, ASIA, neurophysiology).

Study aims:

Prognostic value of clinical diagnosis and additional diagnostic procedures? Which parameters exhibit optimal prognostic power? Differences between tumor/AVM associated lesions and traumatic lesions? What can we learn for pathophysiology and treatment?

• Trial with surgical intervention

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Benign intraspinal process (tumor or vascular malformation AVM)
• Primary lesion caudal of the brainstem, affecting C1
• Cognitive ability to give written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Metastases, malign tumors
• Traumatic lesions
• Myelitis, polyneuropathy
• Disc prolaps

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

intralspinal processes

Description:

Patients with intralspinal processes

Treatment:

Procedure: Diagnostic