Adjuvant Stereotactic Radiosurgery With or Without Postresection Fractionated Radiation Therapy for the Management of Clival Chordomas in Adults: An International Multicenter Case Series.

Othman Bin-AlamerStylianos PikisGeorgios MantziarisArif AbdulbakiArka N MallelaVictor M LuSelcuk PekerYavuz SamanciAhmed M NabeelWael A RedaSameh R TawadrosAmr M N El-ShehabyKhaled AbdelkarimReem M Emad EldinDarrah SheehanKimball SheehanRoman LiscakTomas ChytkaManjul TripathiRenu MadanHerwin SpeckterWenceslao HernándezGene H BarnettYusuke S HoriNisha DabhiSalman AldakhilDavid MathieuDouglas KondziolkaKenneth BernsteinZhishuo WeiAjay NiranjanCharles R KershL Dade LunsfordJason P SheehanHussam Abou-Al-Shaar

Published in: Neurosurgery (2023)

Adjuvant FRT with subsequent boost SRS did not provide superior overall survival or tumor control compared with patients who underwent adjuvant SRS alone. Further studies are required to refine management guidelines among adults with clival chordomas.

Keyphrases

early stage
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
small cell lung cancer
cross sectional
clinical practice