Chondrosarcoma of the Spinous Process: A Rare Presentation

Chondrosarcomas are malignant cartilage forming tumours. They form the second most common primary malignant tumour involving the vertebral axis. We present a rare presentation of a secondary chondrosarcoma from the spinous process of lumbar vertebra and discussed its management. The main emphasis is...

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Autores principales: Arockiaraj, Justin, Venkatesh, Krishnan, Amritanand, Rohit, Sundararaj, Gabriel David, Nachimuthu, Gurusamy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275812
http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2012.6.4.279
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author Arockiaraj, Justin
Venkatesh, Krishnan
Amritanand, Rohit
Sundararaj, Gabriel David
Nachimuthu, Gurusamy
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description Chondrosarcomas are malignant cartilage forming tumours. They form the second most common primary malignant tumour involving the vertebral axis. We present a rare presentation of a secondary chondrosarcoma from the spinous process of lumbar vertebra and discussed its management. The main emphasis is on the rare presentation and the need for awareness and suspicion of the pathology.
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spelling pubmed-35307032012-12-28 Chondrosarcoma of the Spinous Process: A Rare Presentation Arockiaraj, Justin Venkatesh, Krishnan Amritanand, Rohit Sundararaj, Gabriel David Nachimuthu, Gurusamy Asian Spine J Case Report Chondrosarcomas are malignant cartilage forming tumours. They form the second most common primary malignant tumour involving the vertebral axis. We present a rare presentation of a secondary chondrosarcoma from the spinous process of lumbar vertebra and discussed its management. The main emphasis is on the rare presentation and the need for awareness and suspicion of the pathology. Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2012-12 2012-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3530703/ /pubmed/23275812 http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2012.6.4.279 Text en Copyright © 2012 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chondrosarcoma of the Spinous Process: A Rare Presentation
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title_fullStr Chondrosarcoma of the Spinous Process: A Rare Presentation
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title_short Chondrosarcoma of the Spinous Process: A Rare Presentation
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