Fig. 3
From: Risk factors of total blood loss in the posterior surgery for patients with thoracolumbar metastasis
A 57-year-old man with spine metastases of renal cell carcinoma. The patient underwent preoperative arterial embolism and posterior marginal excision (piece-meal). The total blood loss was 7429 ml. A Preoperative sagittal thoracic vertebral MRI showed vertebral collapse at T3. Preoperative transversal MRI showed an extraosseous tumor mass at T3; B Preoperative anteroposterior thoracic vertebral radiography; C Postoperative lateral anteroposterior thoracic vertebral radiography