Chordomas; Crush Intraoperative Analysis

Paediatric Chordomas

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...

Surgical seeding of chordomas.

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...

Craniovertebral Junction Chordomas

O13: Crush Syndrome

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Chordomas involving multiple neuraxial bones.

We present a patient with multifocal symptomatic osseous chordomas having unusual growth patterns with review of the pertinent literature. The patient was 62-year-old male and had multiple osseous chordomas located in sacral, thoracic, and paraclival jugular foramen areas. There was no metastasis in other organs. All affected sites were osseous. The multicentric chordomas are extremely rare. Th...