… An endoscopic endonasal approach, utilizing the heart-shaped flap and angled endoscopes
… resection of select cases of craniocervical junction chordoma with limited lateral expansion. …

… 1 Preoperative imaging before endoscopic endonasal approach at our institute. This patient
… a retrosigmoid approach at another institute. (A–D) MRI T2 WI showing a large chordoma …

… Craniocervical junction (CCJ) chordomas are a neurosurgical challenge because …
endoscope-assisted far-lateral transcondylar approach (EA-FLTA) for the treatment of CCJ …

… chordoma involving the clivus and craniovertebral junction. (c) Postoperative axial T1-weighted
gadolinium-enhanced and (d) postoperative sagittal T2-weighted MRIs after a combined …

… Three patients died for chordoma progression and at follow-up one presented a local … ,
the endoscopic endonasal approach has resulted safe for cranio-cervical junction tumor with a …

… Coronal (A) and sagittal (B) computed tomography images of the craniovertebral junction.
Note that C1 and the odontoid have been eroded from a lower clival chordoma (* denote C1, …

… a fully endoscopic odontoidectomy in a 73-… craniocervical junction ventral compression.
Kassam identified his newly described approach among the expanded endoscopic approaches …

… of the craniovertebral junction (CVJ). The introduction of the endoscopic endonasal approach
(… Three patients had a tumor (2 chordomas and 1 myeloma) and 3 had impressio basilaris. …

… Skull base chordomas (SBCs) are rare clinically aggressive neoplasms, developing local …
), the recent development of the endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA) has revolutionized …

… Methods: We presented three cases of giant clival chordomas with extension to the cranio-vertebral
junction … treated first by endoscopic endonasal transclival approach to decompress …