INCIDENCE OF SPINAL CANCER IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN MEXICO

ABSTRACT Objective To determine the incidence of primary malignant bone tumors of the spine in a High Specialty Orthopedics and Traumatology Medical Unit. Methods Review study. The study included patients receiving benefits from the Mexican Social Security Institute of all ages and both sexes with malignant spinal bone tumors during the period from 2010 to 2017. The descriptive statistics used were central tendency measures and dispersion in the SPSS v. 22 program from IBM. The results are presented in tables and figures. Results There were 107 patients, 56 (52.34%) men, 51 (47.66%) women with a mean age of 59.75 + 10.76 years (minimum 35, maximum 88). There were 46,840 hospital discharges during the period, for an annual average of 5,855 and a monthly average of 487.91. Of the 107 study cases, 78 (72.89%) were in the lumbosacral, 15 (14.01%) in the cervical, and 14 (13.08%) in the thoracic region. The incidence for the period was 1.9/1000 discharges, 1.38in 2010 increasing to 2.32 in 2017. Conclusions The behavior of primary malignant spinal tumors has increased its presentation from 2010 to 2017 . Level of evidence III; Non-analytical, descriptive study.