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Multidisciplinary management of clival chordomas; long-term clinical outcome in a single-institution consecutive series.

Petter FöranderJiri BartekMichael FagerlundHamza BenmakloufErnest DodooAlia ShamikhPär StjärneTiit Mathiesen
Published in: Acta neurochirurgica (2017)
After surgery, 7/22 patients received conventional and/or photon therapy, while 15/22 were treated with GKRS for tumour residual or followed with serial imaging with GKRS as needed upon tumour progression. With this multidisciplinary management, 5- and 10-year survivals of 82% and 50% were achieved, respectively.
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