title: Metastasising chordoma to the mandible from a rare vertebral site: the first reported case.
abstract: Chordoma is a rare tumor, arising from notochord remnants, which usually occurs in the axial skeleton and rarely metastasizes. Although there have been 3 previous reports of metastatic disease to the facial bones from sacrococcygeal chordoma, this is the first to describe spread to the mandible from a vertebral primary chordoma.
authors.affiliation: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK.
authors.forename: Gautham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kulamarva
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilbourn
authors.forename: Rajiv
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Anand
authors.forename: Constantinos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mourouzis
authors.forename: Anne V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Spedding
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Brennan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002817:Chordoma / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D015260:Neprilysin / Q000032:analysis; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D015260:Neprilysin