Metastasising chordoma to the mandible from a rare vertebral site: the first reported case.
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.
Kulamarva
Gautham
G
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK.
Wilbourn
Mark
M
Anand
Rajiv
R
Mourouzis
Constantinos
C
Spedding
Anne V
AV
Brennan
Peter A
PA
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*
D015260:Neprilysin