Primary bone tumors of the spines are rare entities with a poor prognosis if left untreated.

En bloc resection is the preferred surgical approach to minimize the rate of recurrence.

Paraspinal vertebral tumors are even less common.

see Vertebral metastases.

Avila et al. present an approach to the en bloc resection of primary bone tumors of the paraspinal thoracic region with posterior vertebral body hemiosteotomies and lateral thoracotomy. They also describe 2 illustrative cases ¹⁾.