Conventional radiotherapy timing and wound complication avoidance after surgery for metastatic spine disease. A LatAm modified Delphi study

World Neurosurg. 2024 Dec 14:123575. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.123575. Online ahead of print.

¹ Neurosurgical Department, Spine Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: [email protected].
² ScienceRight Research Consulting, Ontario, Canada.
³ Neurosurgical Department, Spine Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁴ Spine Unit, Clínica de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital São José - Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Almenara Hospital, Lima, Perú.
⁷ Neurosurgical Department, Neurological Institute of Curitiba, Brazil.
⁸ Orthopedics Department - Spine Unit, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo. Universidad Estatal de Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁹ Orthopedics Department - Spine Unit, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
¹⁰ Neurosurgical Department. Complejo Asistencial Víctor Ríos Ruiz, Los Ángeles, Chile.
¹¹ Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Universidad del Desarrollo, Clínica Alemana, Santiago, Chile.
¹² Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud (FUCS). Hospital de San José - Hospital Infantil Universitario de San José Bogotá, Colombia.
¹³ DWO Médicos Associados. São Paulo, Brazil.

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Keywords: Metastatic spine Delphi study; Radiotherapy timing; Wound complication; Wound dehiscence.