Chordomas in ENT
Kammerer, H.; Meyer-Breiting, E.
Laryngologie Rhinologie Otologie 59(2): 144-149
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-1588 PMID: 7442393 Document Number: 159522
Chordomas grow out of intraosseous remnants of the embryonal chorda dorsalis situated most frequently in the clinical and sacrococcygeal regions. In ENT they appear as pharyngeal tumors growing downward from the clivus or forward from the vertebra showing a lobulated pattern with a surface partly soft partly rather firm. From 1965 until 1977 five cases of chordomas were observed and treated in the centre of ENT in Frankfurt. Three patients were treated by surgery only, one by combined radiosurgical therapy and one by radiotherapy with neutron-rays only. The last above mentioned one except all patients did'nt alive three years and died by the tumor or the consequence of therapy. The difficulty in arriving at the best way of treatment is discussed by demonstrating these five cases.