Combined Transnasal and Transcranial Removal of a Giant Clival Chordoma

Abstract Clival chordomas confront the surgeon with the task of resecting an aggressively invasive and destructive tumor in a critical surrounding. For many, mainly smaller, chordomas, the transnasal transclival approach is a feasible and safe surgical access. Larger tumors and especially those with...

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Main Authors: Nicolas O. Koechlin, Daniel Simmen, Hans Rudolf Briner, Robert Reisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2014-05-01
Series:Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0034-1373668