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Chordoma: the nonsarcoma primary bone tumor.
The oncologist - 1 Nov 2007
Chugh Rashmi, Tawbi Hussein, Lucas David R, Biermann J Sybil, Schuetze Scott M, Baker Laurence H
Abstract excerpt
Chordomas are rare, slowly growing, locally aggressive neoplasms of bone that arise from embryonic remnants of the notochord. These tumors typically occur in the axial skeleton and have a proclivity for the spheno-occipital region of the skull base and sacral regions. In adults, 50% of chordomas involve the sacrococcygeal region, 35% occur at the base of the skull near the spheno-occipital area, and 15% are found...
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