Giant clival chordoma causing pathological laughter
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Combined Transnasal and Transcranial Removal of a Giant Clival Chordoma
Clival chordomas confront the surgeon with the task of resecting an aggressively invasive and destructive tumor in a critical surrounding. For many, mainly smaller, chordomas, the transnasal transclival approach is a feasible and safe surgical access. Larger tumors and especially those with extensive intradural, retrochiasmal, and/or deep cervical expansion are mostly approached by open craniot...
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عنوان ژورنال: Surgical Neurology International
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2152-7806
DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.127257