Operative management of sacral chordoma

B Fuchs, ID Dickey, MJ Yaszemski, CY Inwards… - JBJS, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Background: Sacrococcygeal chordoma presents a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic
problem, with a high rate of local recurrence. The purpose of this report is to define the …

Les chordomes

B George, D Bresson, S Bouazza, S Froelich… - Neurochirurgie, 2014 - Elsevier
Purposes To review in the literature, all the epidemiological, clinical, radiological,
histological and therapeutic data regarding chordomas as well as various notochordal …

Surgical seeding of chordomas

KI Arnautović, O Al-Mefty - Journal of neurosurgery, 2001 - thejns.org
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 …

Chordomas of the skull base: MR features.

SP Meyers, WL Hirsch, HD Curtin… - American journal …, 1992 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
PURPOSE To characterize the MR features of skull base chordomas with regard to signal
intensity, size, position, extension, and Gd-DTPA enhancement. PATIENTS AND METHODS …

Reconstruction after total sacrectomy: early experience with a new surgical technique.

ID Dickey, RR Hugate Jr, B Fuchs… - … Research (1976-2007 …, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Nine patients had sacrectomy with ilio-lumbar arthrodesis for treatment of sacral
malignancies at our institution between 2000 and 2004. Five patients had total sacrectomy …

Neoplastic diseases affecting the central skull base: CT and MR imaging.

LE Ginsberg - AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 1992 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
Modern imaging techniques play a vital role in the diagnostic evaluation and follow-up of
patients with neoplastic disease affecting the skull base. Many of these lesions have a high …

Long-term results: adjuvant radiotherapy in en bloc resection of sacrococcygeal chordoma is advisable

WA Moojen, CLA Vleggeert-Lankamp, ADG Krol… - Spine, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A cross-sectional study. Objective. The purpose of this report is to define the
role of postoperative radiotherapy in the prevention of local recurrence (LR). Summary of …

Surgical resection and adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of skull base chordomas

O Sanusi, O Arnaout, RJ Rahme, C Horbinski… - World neurosurgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Chordomas are rare tumors of notochordal origin that are known to be locally
aggressive and are often treated with surgical resection followed by adjuvant radiation …

Endoscopic approach to clival chordomas: the northwestern experience

RJ Rahme, OM Arnaout, OR Sanusi, K Kesavabhotla… - World neurosurgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Chordomas are rare primary bone tumors with a low-grade histology but an
aggressive clinical behavior characterized by local invasion and recurrence. When …

Intradural spinal seeding of a clival chordoma

S Asano, N Kawahara, T Kirino - Acta neurochirurgica, 2003 - Springer
Background.¶ Following recent progress in radiological and surgical techniques for treating
skull base tumours, more attention should be paid to the relatively rare phenomenon of …