Recurrence in Skull Base Chordomas and its Management

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Local Invasion and Metastasis

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Epidural Middle Fossa Approaches

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Chordomas are rare, slow-growing, infiltrative tumors that are most often identified in the fourth to sixth decades of life. 1 They account for 1 to 4% of all primary bone…

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Historical Aspects

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Chordomas represent less than 1% of intracranial tumors and 3% of primary bone tumors, with an incidence of 0.08 per 100,000, peaking in the sixth decade, with a 2:1 male…

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Surgery for Spinal Chordomas

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Chordomas are rare neoplasms arising from remnants of the notochord, an embryonic precursor to the axial skeleton, and can occur anywhere along the spinal axis. 1 They are relatively uncommon…

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Frontobasal Approaches to Clival Chordomas

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The frontobasal approach is designed to expose strictly extradural lesions of the anterior fossa as well as middle clivus and inferior clivus, with little or no lateral extension. For such…

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Evolutionary Origin of the Notochord

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The notochord is a mesoderm-derived, rod-shaped organ found in embryos of all chordates that defines the craniocaudal axis of the embryo. Chordates comprise cephalochordates, urochordates, and vertebrates. They probably originated…

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Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Chordomas

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