[Hypervascular chordoma: report of a case].
The authors report a rare case of sellar chordoma with a marked vascularity documented on cerebral angiogram. Its possible pathogenesis and some therapeutic problems were briefly discussed. Only a few cases of chordoma with such a positive tumor stain have been reported previously.
Hirai
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Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Kikuchi
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Yamashita
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D000328:Adult; D002817:Chordoma / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012658:Sella Turcica; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed