360-surgery for a giant cervical chordoma with involvement of the right vertebral artery

BACKGROUND: Chordomas are malignant tumors that arise from the remnants of the notochord. Complete en bloc radical resection with postoperative radiation therapy is currently considered the gold standard. Here, we performed a 360-staged approach to manage a C3-C4 chordoma that involved the right ver...

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Autores principales: Molina-Martínez, Rodolfo Pedro, Medina-Illueca, Venus Damaris, Betancourt-Quiroz, Carlos, Vega-Moreno, Daniel Alejandro, Moral-Naranjo, Andrés Alberto, Vicuña-González, Rosa María, Llamas-Ceras, Martha Leticia, Reyes-Rodríguez, Víctor Andrés, Hernández-Reséndiz, Rodrigo Efraín, la Torre, Abraham Ibarra-de, García-González, Ulises
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34992921
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_1075_2021
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Chordomas are malignant tumors that arise from the remnants of the notochord. Complete en bloc radical resection with postoperative radiation therapy is currently considered the gold standard. Here, we performed a 360-staged approach to manage a C3-C4 chordoma that involved the right vertebral artery. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 40-year-old woman presented with a C3-C4 chordoma that invaded the right vertebral artery. She responded well to a circumferential approach including resection and stabilization. CONCLUSION: A 40-year-old woman with a C3-C4 spinal chordoma was optimally managed with a combined anterior/posterior surgical approach including decompression/fusion.

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