A lumbar chordoma treated with a wide resection.
Chordomas are rare skeletal tumors arising from the embryonic remains of the notochord [18, 30]. These tumors tend to appear in midline regions, particularly at the upper and lower extremities of the spinal column. We report the case of a 74-year-old woman with radicular compression associated with an L3 chordoma that was treated with a wide resection.
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Servicio de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología B. Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
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D000368:Aged; D002817:Chordoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*