title: Chordoma of the lumbar spine presenting as sciatica and treated with vertebroplasty.
abstract: The lumbar spine is a less common location for chordoma. Here we describe a 44-year-old woman presenting with pain due to a L4 vertebral expansile lesion that caused significant canal stenosis and neural foraminal compromise. Vertebroplasty was performed and resulted in immediate pain relief. For patients with painful lumbar chordoma who are unwilling to undergo surgery, vertebroplasty can play a palliative role as in patients with other vertebral lesions. Treating pain and stabilizing vertebra by way of vertebroplasty in a case of chordoma has not yet been reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Imaging Sciences and Interventional Radiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, 695011 Kerala, India.
authors.forename: Somenath
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: Narendra Kuber
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Bodhey
authors.forename: Arun Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Alagappan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Periakaruppan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002817:Chordoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D010147:Pain Measurement; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D054854:Vertebroplasty