title: Metastatic disease from chordoma.
abstract: Chordomas are tumors with a bad prognosis, because of their location, local aggressiveness and high rate of local relapse. Despite of be benign tumors, they have certain capacity of metastasize and a clinical evolution that results interesting. When we analyzed our series with 35 chordomas studied and treated between 1975 and 2002, we found three patients that experienced a systemic dissemination.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oncología Radioterápica, Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain. vergara_gloria@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vergara
authors.forename: Belén
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Belinchón
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Valcárcel
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Veiras
authors.forename: Irma
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zapata
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de la Torre
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D002817:Chordoma / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed