Table 5.

Preoperative and postoperative clinical findings of 12 patients undergoing minimally invasive resection of thoracic and lumbar intradural spinal tumors

Case number	VAS preoperative	VAS postoperative	Sensory preoperative	Sensory postoperative	Lower limb power preoperative	Lower limb power postoperative	Nurick’s preoperative	Nurick’s postoperative	Bowel symptoms preoperative	Bowel symptoms postoperative	Bladder symptoms preoperative	Bladder symptoms postoperative
1	7	1	+	Decr	R4+, L5	R5, L5	NA	NA	N	N	N	N
2	9	2	+	Decr	R4-, L4	R5, L5	NA	NA	N	N	N	N
3	9	2	+	Decr	R5, L4+	R5, L5	NA	NA	N	N	N	N
4	10	2	+	Decr	R5, L4	R5, L4+	NA	NA	N	N	N	Reten
5	10	0	+	Decr	R5, L4	R4+, L4+	NA	NA	N	N	N	N
6	8	1	+	Decr	R4-, L4+	R4+, L4+	3	1	N	N	N	N
7	8	2	+	Decr	R4, L5	R5, L5	NA	NA	N	N	Reten	N
8	8	1	+	Decr	R4-, L4	R5, L5	4	1	N	N	N	N
9	0	0	+	Decr	R2, L0	R4, L1	NA	NA	Consti	Inconti	Reten	Reten
10	9	0	+	Decr	R4, L5	R5, L5	NA	NA	N	N	Inconti	N
11	8	1	+	Decr	R4, L4; foot R0, L3	R4+, L4; foot R2, L4	NA	NA	N	N	N	N
12	0	0	+	Decr	R 0, L 0	R4, L4	5	3	Consti	N	Reten	N

VAS – Visual analog scale; Decr – Decrease; R – Right; L – Left; NA – Not applicable; N – Normal; Consti – Constipation; Reten – Retension