VISHNU LAL

Junior Resident, Department of Orthopaedics, Rajshree Medical and Research Institute, Bareilly, India

Publications

• Case Reports
  Functional outcome in intradural extramedullary tumor patients after surgical tumour excision: Case series
  Author(s): VISHNU LAL, SUJAL RAJ NS, NAZIM MUGHAL, AJAY KUMAR, VIKAS VERMA, GOPAL TIWARI* and DEEPAK SAXENA
  
  Background: About two-thirds of the benign intraspinal neoplasms are intradural extramedullary spinal cord tumours (IESCT). On rare occasions, they exhibit neurological involvement ranging from acute to chronic, necessitating urgent surgical intervention. Methods: Here, we examined a group of 10 intradural extramedullary tumours treated between 2020 and 2022 by a single orthopaedic surgeon at Rajshree Medical and Research Institute, Bareilly's department of orthopaedics. Patients were followed up forat least two years. Clinical and functional outcome of these patients were evaluated by Karnofsky Performance Score [KPS], and Modified McCormick scale Results: Thoracic spine 07 (70%) and junctional tumours 3 (30%) were the major sites of the majority of IESCT tumour in our study. There were 5 meningiomas, 2 schwannomas, 2 inflammatory, and 1 benign cyst on histo-p.. Read More»