Surgical Management of Sacral Chordomas: Illustrative Cases and Current Management Paradigms

Sacral chordomas represent more than 50% of all sacral tumors. These slow-growing, malignant lesions present insidiously and are often large and intimately involved with sacral neurovascular and pelvic structures. En bloc resection is the only well-established predictor of progression-free survival....

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Autores principales: Pendharkar, Arjun V, Ho, Allen L, Sussman, Eric S, Desai, Atman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2015
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Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4571900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26430575
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.301
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author Pendharkar, Arjun V
Ho, Allen L
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description Sacral chordomas represent more than 50% of all sacral tumors. These slow-growing, malignant lesions present insidiously and are often large and intimately involved with sacral neurovascular and pelvic structures. En bloc resection is the only well-established predictor of progression-free survival. Optimal surgical management requires a complex multi-disciplinary approach. Here, we describe two cases of sacral chordoma and review current management paradigms.
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spelling pubmed-45719002015-10-01 Surgical Management of Sacral Chordomas: Illustrative Cases and Current Management Paradigms Pendharkar, Arjun V Ho, Allen L Sussman, Eric S Desai, Atman Cureus Radiation Oncology Sacral chordomas represent more than 50% of all sacral tumors. These slow-growing, malignant lesions present insidiously and are often large and intimately involved with sacral neurovascular and pelvic structures. En bloc resection is the only well-established predictor of progression-free survival. Optimal surgical management requires a complex multi-disciplinary approach. Here, we describe two cases of sacral chordoma and review current management paradigms. Cureus 2015-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4571900/ /pubmed/26430575 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.301 Text en Copyright © 2015, Pendharkar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Surgical Management of Sacral Chordomas: Illustrative Cases and Current Management Paradigms
title Surgical Management of Sacral Chordomas: Illustrative Cases and Current Management Paradigms
title_full Surgical Management of Sacral Chordomas: Illustrative Cases and Current Management Paradigms
title_fullStr Surgical Management of Sacral Chordomas: Illustrative Cases and Current Management Paradigms
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title_short Surgical Management of Sacral Chordomas: Illustrative Cases and Current Management Paradigms
title_sort surgical management of sacral chordomas: illustrative cases and current management paradigms
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4571900/
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