Fig. 2
From: Risk factors of total blood loss in the posterior surgery for patients with thoracolumbar metastasis
A 49-year-old woman with spine metastases of breast cancer. The patient underwent posterior marginal excision (en-bloc). The total blood loss was 4121 ml. A Preoperative sagittal thoracic vertebral MRI showed vertebral collapse at T6. Preoperative transversal MRI showed that the tumor involved the upper and lower adjacent vertebral bodies (T5 and T7); B Preoperative anteroposterior thoracic vertebral radiography; C Postoperative lateral anteroposterior thoracic vertebral radiography