Clinical results of treatment for spinal cord tumors over the last 5 years were retrospectively evaluated. Thirty-one of the total of 33 cases were treated surgically. Surgical therapy was not applicable for the remaining two cases because lung cancer was found during preoperative examinations in one case, and in the other, an intramedullary tumor was found to be located in the upper cervical spine.
Among the 31 cases treated surgically, the Frankel grade was improved or unchanged in 29, whereas it deteriorated in two. Schwannoma was the most common pathological type of tumor. The tumor was intradural and extramedullary in 63.7% of cases and located at the thoracic vertebral level in 45.4%.
