Affiliations 

  • 1 Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor
  • 2 Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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Abstract

Objective: Our aim is to determine the average intraoperative blood loss in patients who underwent pre-operative spinal tumour embolisation in PPUKM from 2010 until 2016 and to compare with other centres from literature review.Material And Methodology: 15 patients in PPUKM with spinal tumour and spinal metastatic disease underwent pre-operative embolisation before palliative spinal surgery between 2010 and 2016 in PPUKM. Intraoperative blood loss during palliative spinal surgery was documented obtaining the average and median blood loss. Secondary analyses were made on the amount of intraoperative blood loss in comparison to the embolisation materials, degree of embolisation completion, primary malignancy, level of spinal metastatic involvement and total operating time.Result: The average and median intraoperative blood loss during palliative spinal surgery were 1480mls and 1000mls respectively, which is comparable with other centre from literature review. Significant difference is noted in intraoperative blood loss between the different embolisation materials used (P