Lumbar spine tumor can cause paralysis?

Lumbar bone tumors can also cause paraplegia. Lumbar bone tumors are generally divided into two types, primary bone tumors and secondary bone tumors. For primary bone tumors, bone damage may be caused, especially for malignant bone tumors. Bone damage will be more serious, often causing deformity of the vertebral body, but also causing nerve compression. If the nerve is squeezed very severely, it will show different degrees of paralysis. In addition, a type of metastatic bone tumor, there are many tumors will metastasize to the spine bone above, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, may also be lung cancer, etc., these tumors will cause bone damage after metastasis to the lumbar vertebral body, a long time or under the action of external force, may cause pathological fractures, in this case will also cause nerve damage, showing different degrees of paralysis, so for this kind of patient to actively carry out surgical treatment.