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19442000

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-15
pubmed:abstractText
En bloc resection of chordoma has been shown to be critical for prolonging long-term survival and disease-free intervals in patients. Cervical spine chordomas pose special challenges because of the vertebral arteries and critical nerve roots involved. Multilevel chordomas pose even greater challenges because of the need to remove multiple segments of the spine in 1 piece without tumor violation. Although there have been 2 case reports describing multilevel spondylectomy for cervical chordoma, to the authors' knowledge, there are no reports of parasagittal osteotomies for en bloc resection of multilevel cervical chordomas. The use of these osteotomies allows us to avoid intralesional resection and adhere to the oncological principle of en bloc tumor excision. The authors report their management of 3 multilevel cervical chordomas and describe their technique of en bloc tumor removal using parasagittal osteotomy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1547-5654
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
397-403
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Parasagittal osteotomy for en bloc resection of multilevel cervical chordomas.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0350, USA. choud@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports