About this Research Topic
The diseases related to the spinal cord and spine are diverse, with variants such as cervical and lumbar degenerative diseases, intraspinal occupancies, intraspinal infections, syringomyelia, spinal arachnoiditis, Chiari malformations, spinal cord injuries, and spinal cord cysts among others. Accordingly, this proposal primarily focuses on studies related to the pathogenesis of various kinds of spinal cord and spine diseases, as well as the therapeutic effects of different microscopic surgical interventions, their outcomes, systematic and data-driven analysis of survival prognosis, physical therapy and follow-up rehabilitation.
We look at the detailed reportage of rare clinical cases and their literature reviews, novel physical therapy, and the use of adjuvant radiochemotherapy in treating malignant tumors, injuries, inflammations, degenerative diseases and other associated spinal cord and spine diseases.
This proposal intends to cover a broad range of article types, encouraging the surgical procedures and interventions involved in the manuscript to possess qualities such as “minimally invasive”, “low recurrence rate”, “highly targeted”, “cutting-edge”, and “highly representative”.
Till now, research into spinal cord and spine disease mechanisms remain largely unproven and contentious. The treatment strategies for malignant tumors are relatively monotonous, and solutions for injury repair are still ineffective. The application of peripheral nerve transplantation to spinal cord treatment has not been effectively implemented.
Therefore, the scope for research in the spinal cord and spine field is significant, with great potential for breakthroughs, and there is enormous anticipation for effective translation between basic experimental research and clinical research.
Please note that the Section of Neuro-oncology and Neurosurgical Oncology, also part of Frontiers in Oncology, does not accept articles that are purely in silico/bioinformatics based without clinical validation in patients (rather than rely solely on publicly available databases) and/or functional validation in vitro or in vivo.
Keywords: spinal neurosurgery, minimally invasive surgery, microscopic surgical interventions, physical therapy and rehabilitation, malignant spinal tumors, spinal cord injuries, degenerative spinal diseases
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