Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an occurrence of an injury to the head with one or more of the following attributable to the head injury:

• Decreased level of consciousness
• Amnesia
• Skull fracture
• A neurological,...

Metastatic or malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC) is defined as spinal cord or cauda equina compression by direct pressure and/or induction of vertebral collapse or instability by metastatic spread or direct extension of malignancy that threatens or causes neurological disability.¹ MSCC is a neurological...