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World J Clin Cases. Mar 16, 2014; 2(3): 57-61
Published online Mar 16, 2014. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v2.i3.57
Published online Mar 16, 2014. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v2.i3.57
Multilevel oblique corpectomies as an effective surgical option to treat cervical chordoma in a young girl
Roberto Delfini, Daniele Marruzzo, Roberto Tarantino, Nicola Marotta, Alessandro Landi, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Rome “Sapienza”, 00168 Rome, Italy
Author contributions: Delfini R, Landi A, Marotta N, Marruzzo D and Tarantino R performed the surgery; Marruzzo D and Landi A contributed to the conception and design, acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data; Delfini R and Landi A drafted the article and revised it critically for important intellectual content; Delfini R and Landi A approved the final version to be published.
Correspondence to: Alessandro Landi, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Viale del Policlinico 155, 00168 Rome, Italy. dott.alessandro.landi@gmail.com
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Received: October 30, 2013
Revised: January 2, 2014
Accepted: January 17, 2014
Published online: March 16, 2014
Processing time: 141 Days and 1.8 Hours
Revised: January 2, 2014
Accepted: January 17, 2014
Published online: March 16, 2014
Processing time: 141 Days and 1.8 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: In young patients, chordomas are rare and unpredictable. Despite this, the treatment of choice remains the total resection, as much as possible, followed by proton beam radiation. When there is a precarotid and retrocarotid extension, the removal by a multilevel oblique corpectomy seems to be a feasible and safe surgical technique.