title: Intracranial metastasis from a sacrococcygeal chordoma. Case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Cork University Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. mahmoudhamdy@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Mahmoud Hamdy
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kamel
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kelleher
authors.forename: Kristian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aquilina
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Keohane
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaar
mesh_terms: 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*