Epidemiology of the Primary Spinal Cord Tumors

Abstract

Epidemiological and statistical studies around the world, as a rule, focus on malignant cases in various structures of the central nervous system, which is why there are no true data on benign neoplasms of the spinal cord and the central nervous system as a whole .

Despite the existence of several projects in the world to study CNS neoplasms, the epidemiological data of primary spinal cord tumors are poorly studied, there are no uniform indicators that could represent the true frequency and increase in the incidence of primary spinal cord tumors. There are few reports in the scientific literature devoted to the study of the epidemiology of POSM and the research data vary greatly, since POSM has been studied in different countries, regions and localities as part of all CNS tumors or in separate nosological forms depending on localization and age groups.