Clinical course and autopsy findings of a patient with clival chordoma who underwent multiple surgeries and radiation during a 10-year period

Skull Base

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 331-340

  Tamaki, Masashi ^a   Aoyagi, Masaru ^a   Kuroiwa, Toshihiko ^a   Yamamoto, Masaaki ^b   Kishimoto, Seiji ^a   Ohno, Kikuo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Katsuta Hospital Mito GammaHouse   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Chordoma; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Proton radiation therapy; Skull base surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; CLIVAL CHORDOMA; CRANIAL NERVE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

EID: 35348920680     PISSN: 15315010     EISSN: 15320065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-986438     Document Type: Article

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