Nishad Mysore

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Meagan E. Tibbo |Jean Jose |Andrew Rosenberg |Nishad Mysore

1 Introduction Conventional chordomas are rare malignant tumors that arise from remnant notochordal tissue and typically arise in the axial skeleton. Half of all such tumors are located in the sacrococcygeal area, whereas the rest predominantly affect the sphenooccipital region or mobile vertebral segments [1]. Rarer still are extra-axial chordomas. On review of the literature, there were less than 100 total documented cases [2, 3].