Successful surgical resection of a rare case of a giant sacral chordoma: a multidisciplinary feat

We, here, report the case of a 72-year-old man who presented with a giant sacral chordoma without aggressive clinical and neurological course and confirmed with a CT guided biopsy. The patient underwent multidisciplinary, two-stage successful complete en bloc sacrectomy along with total gross tumour...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ case reports 2020-09, Vol.13 (9), p.e235045
Hauptverfasser: Alomari, Safwan Omar, Bsat, Shadi, Khalife, Mohammad, Skaf, Ghassan
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Zusammenfassung:We, here, report the case of a 72-year-old man who presented with a giant sacral chordoma without aggressive clinical and neurological course and confirmed with a CT guided biopsy. The patient underwent multidisciplinary, two-stage successful complete en bloc sacrectomy along with total gross tumour resection, followed by lumboiliac fusion and instrumentation in the second stage without any neurological deficit nor bladder or bowel-related complications.
ISSN:1757-790X
1757-790X
DOI:10.1136/bcr-2020-235045