Clival chordomas: A pathological, surgical, and radiotherapeutic review

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 892-906

  Fernandez Miranda, Juan C ^a   Gardner, Paul A ^a   Snyderman, Carl H ^a   Devaney, Kenneth O ^b   Mendenhall, William M ^c   Suárez, Carlos ^d,e   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^f   Ferlito, Alfio ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Otolaryngology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

clival chordoma; clivus; head and neck tumors; radiotherapy; skull base surgery

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; FRAGILE HISTIDINE TRIAD PROTEIN; METASTATIC MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA; PROTEIN S 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDUCENS NERVE; AUDITORY TUBE; BASAL CISTERN; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOID MENINGIOMA; CHORDOMA; CLIVAL CHORDOMA; CLIVUS; CRANIAL DRILL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DORELLO CANAL; ECCHORDOSIS PHYSALIPHORA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXTRASKELETAL MYXOID CHONDROSARCOMA; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGIOMA; MICROSCOPY; NOTOCHORD; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASE; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SKULL CANCER; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; VIDIAN NERVE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGERY; NOSE CAVITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHORDOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NASAL CAVITY; NATURAL ORIFICE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900521580     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23415     Document Type: Review

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