Surgical treatment of spinal chordomas. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The clinical features and results of 34 patients with chordomas treated over a seven-year period were analyzed. Surgical treatment consisted of wide local excision (n = 6), marginal resection (n = 5), intralesional resection (n = 20), and biopsy (n = 3). Eighteen patients received postoperative radiotherapy. The local recurrence rate was 65%, with 30% of patients developing distant metastases. With the introduction of computed tomography, smaller tumors are currently being diagnosed; as a result, 35% of the patients in this series are disease free, compared with 10% described previously.

publication date

  • December 1, 1987

Research

keywords

  • Chordoma
  • Spinal Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023589209

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1001/archsurg.1987.01400240127024

PubMed ID

  • 3689125

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 122

issue

  • 12