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A rare disease with a widespread symptomatology is always liable to lead to incorrect diagnosis, and spinal tumors both are seldom and show manifold symptoms.
Between 1970 and 1983, 358 patients were operated on for spinal tumors in the Neurosurgical Department of Düsseldorf University; in the same period about 2000 patients were operated on for intracranial tumors. The overall estimated incidence of intracranial tumors is 1 per 5000 inhabitants per year; thus the incidence of operable spinal tumors may be assumed to be 1 per 30 000 at the most, including metastases.
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Schirmer, M., Eisenbach, R., Lange, S., Messing, M., Wojczenko, W. (1986). Misdiagnoses in Spinal Tumors. In: Wenker, H., Klinger, M., Brock, M., Reuter, F. (eds) Spinal Cord Tumors Experimental Neurosurgery Neurosurgical Intensive Care. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71108-4_22
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