Metastatic disease from chordoma

Autor: Gloria Vergara, Francisco Valcárcel, I. Zapata, Maria Veiras, Belén Belinchón, Alejandro de la Torre
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Clinical and Translational Oncology. 10:517-521
ISSN: 1699-3055
1699-048X
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-008-0243-4
Popis: Chordomas are tumors with a bad prognosis, because of their location, local aggressiveness and high rate of local relapse. Despite of be benign tumors, they have certain capacity of metastasize and a clinical evolution that results interesting. When we analyzed our series with 35 chordomas studied and treated between 1975 and 2002, we found three patients that experienced a systemic dissemination.
Databáze: OpenAIRE