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Spinal Chordomas: Current Medical and Surgical Management
Chordomas are rare, benign tumors that account for 1-4% of bony lesions and most frequently occur in the skull base, mobile spine, and sacrum. Historically, they have been most effectively managed with en bloc surgical resection, as they are resistant to conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Currently, the gold standard treatment for spinal chordomas is en bloc excision with negative marg...
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OBJECT Chordomas have a high propensity for local recurrence and progression, as well as for systemic and cerebrospinal fluid metastasis. The authors identified and analyzed a series of patients with chordomas, focusing on an underrecognized entity--surgical seeding. METHODS In a retrospective analysis of 82 patients with chordomas treated over a 10-year period (1990-2000) the authors found s...
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Paediatric chordomas are rare malignant tumours arising from primitive notochordal remnants with a high rate of recurrence. Only 5 % of them occur in the first two decades such less than 300 paediatric cases have been reported so far in the literature. In children, the average age at diagnosis is 10 years with a male-to-female ratio closed to 1. On the opposite to adults, the majority of paedia...
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OBJECT Chordomas of the cervical spine are rare tumors. Although en bloc resection has proven to be the ideal procedure in other areas, there is controversy regarding this approach in the cervical spine. The goal in this study was to determine whether piecemeal tumor resection was efficient in the management of chordomas that arise in this location. METHODS The authors retrospectively reviewe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Orthopaedics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0341-2695,1432-5195
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-006-0095-x