Chordoma is a rare bone cancer that is aggressive, locally invasive, and has a poor
prognosis. Chordomas are thought to arise from transformed remnants of notochord and …

Appropriate application of an oncologic staging system is required to evaluate the
relationship among histologic types, management, and outcome of primary bone tumors. A …

Study Design. A new surgical strategy for treatment of patients with spinal metastases was
designed, and 61 patients were treated based on this strategy. Objectives. To propose a …

BACKGROUND The prognosis of patients with chordoma of the sacrum and mobile spine
has been reported to be dismal and attributable in the majority of cases to intralesional …

Study Design. A consecutive series of 52 chordomas of the mobile spine observed over a 50-
year period includes a retrospective review of 15 cases treated prior to 1991 and a …

Metastatic disease, myeloma, and lymphoma are the most common malignant spinal tumors.
Hemangioma is the most common benign tumor of the spine. Other primary osseous lesions …

Conventionally, curettage or piecemeal excision of vertebral tumors has been commonly
practiced. However, clear disadvantages of these approaches include a high risk of tumor …

Chordoma is a low-grade notochordal tumor of the skull base, mobile spine and sacrum
which behaves malignantly and confers a poor prognosis despite indolent growth patterns …

Chordoma is a rare malignant tumor of bone with high morbidity and mortality. Recently,
aggressive pediatric poorly differentiated chordoma with SMARCB1 loss has been …

Bony metastases are a frequent problem in elderly patients affected by cancer, and those
with bony metastases involve the spine in approx. 50%. The most frequent spinal …