Intracranial metastasis from a sacrococcygeal chordoma. Case report.
Chordoma is a locally invasive tumor of low metastatic potential. Only six cases of chordoma that metastasized to the brain are found in the English literature. Most of these lesions were clinically silent and all were associated with extraneural metastases. The authors report a case of symptomatic brain metastasis from a sacrococcygeal chordoma in the absence of other metastases. The incidence, sites, and factors predictive of chordoma metastasis are discussed.
Kamel
Mahmoud Hamdy
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Department of Neurosurgery, Cork University Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. mahmoudhamdy@yahoo.com
Lim
Chris
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Kelleher
Michael
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Aquilina
Kristian
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Keohane
Catherine
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Kaar
George
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D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D002817:Chordoma / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012445:Sacrococcygeal Region / Q000473:pathology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*