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Sagara, Taka-aki; Akasaki, Koji; Kawatani, Yosuke; Watanabe, Hiroyuki; Tahata, Shogo; Takemura, Kenichi; Nagata, Takehiro; Seike, Ichiro
Orthopedics & Traumatology, 2012/09/25, Volume: 61, Issue: 3Journal Article
We experienced eight cases of myeloma with spinal lesion from 2001. The patients consisted of five males and three females with mean age of 64 years (range: 35 to 78 years). Seven patients had multiple myeloma and a patient had solitary myeloma. Five patients were obliged to undergo operative therapy because of pain and muscle weakness of the lower extremity, but two patients did not recover from Frankel B grade. The prognosis of myeloma patients with vertebral lesions seems to be very difficult to predict. Cooperation between physicians and orthopedic surgeons will become increasingly important.
