Maxillary surgical seeding of a clival chordoma.

Br J Neurosurg

CHU de Tours, Service de Neurochirurgie, Tours, France.

Published: February 2012

Seeding on surgical pathway is a rare form of clival chordoma treatment failure. We report the case of a 42-year-old male with a clival chondroid chordoma removed by a sublabial transsphenoidal approach followed by proton beam radiotherapy, who developed a maxillary bone recurrence 3 years after surgery.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02688697.2011.595844DOI Listing

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