Posts by Elie Massaad, MD, MMSc
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Body Composition Influences Risk of Survival After Surgery for Spinal Metastases
Elie Massaad, MD, MMSc, John H. Shin, MD, and colleagues found that body composition analysis of routinely obtained presurgical CT scans, performed by an unsupervised machine learning–based system, was superior to measurement of sarcopenia alone for predicting mortality after surgery for spinal metastases.
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Review: Novel Applications of Spinal Navigation in Deformity and Oncology Surgery
Elie Massaad, MD, and colleagues recently reviewed early work showing the promise of computer-assisted navigation—beyond screw placement—in surgeries to correct spinal deformities and resect spinal tumors.
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Metastatic Spinal Tumor Frailty Index Does Not Perform Consistently
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital found the Metastatic Spinal Tumor Frailty Index did not predict complications, in-patient mortality or length of stay following metastatic spinal tumor surgery when applied to data outside the development cohort.
Biography
Elie Massaad, MD, MMSc, is a research fellow in neurosurgical spine oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
