TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hubertus, Vanessa
AU  - Wagner, Arthur
AU  - Albrecht, Carolin
AU  - Kalasauskas, Darius
AU  - Jankovic, Dragan
AU  - Turgut, Merih
AU  - Lener, Sara
AU  - Gmeiner, Raphael
AU  - Miller, Hannah
AU  - Brüsseler, Melanie M T
AU  - Acker, Güliz
AU  - Hecht, Nils
AU  - Onken, Julia S
AU  - Combs, Stephanie E
AU  - Thomé, Claudius
AU  - Ringel, Florian
AU  - Vajkoczy, Peter
AU  - Meyer, Bernhard
TI  - Carbon fiber-reinforced PEEK implants in oncologic spine surgery: a multicenter experience on implications for postoperative patient management.
JO  - Journal of neurosurgery / Spine
VL  - 42
IS  - 5
SN  - 1547-5654
CY  - Charlottesville, Va.
PB  - American Assoc. of Neurological Surgeons
M1  - DKFZ-2025-00414
SP  - 605-614
PY  - 2025
N1  - 2025 Feb 21;42(5):605-614
AB  - Carbon fiber-reinforced polyetheretherketone (CFRP) implants have been used safely in treating spinal oncological disease and promise improved imaging follow-up and radiotherapy planning. However, data on the implant's routine use in the clinical setting with implications for postoperative management are scarce. The aim of this observational study was to provide real-world insight into the current use of CFRP instrumentations in spinal oncological disease and to define their actual relevance for postoperative imaging follow-up and adjuvant treatment planning.Datasets of patients treated between 2015 and 2022 with CFRP instrumentations due to spinal oncological disease were collected in a multicentric registry at four participating tertiary spine centers in Germany and Austria. Data on each patient's epidemiology, clinical status, surgery, adjuvant therapy, and outcome was collected retrospectively. Data management was performed using a multicentric REDCap database, and data were reviewed and analyzed descriptively.A total of 457 patients were enrolled. Most patients received decompression and instrumentation (n = 308 [67
KW  - adjuvant radiotherapy (Other)
KW  - carbon fiber–reinforced PEEK (Other)
KW  - oncology (Other)
KW  - postoperative imaging (Other)
KW  - spinal oncologic disease (Other)
KW  - spine instrumentation (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:39983106
DO  - DOI:10.3171/2024.10.SPINE24753
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/299004
ER  -