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[Surgery of advanced clival tumors]
1Third Teaching Hospital, Bethune University of Medical Sciences, Changchun 130031.
Objective:
To investigate the effects of surgical procedures on tumor 27 patients with advanced clival tumors during the last 9 years.
Methods:
Four different kinds of surgical approaches were selected and used according to preoperative clinical and radiographic findings, and the complications and the long-term survival rates were evaluated after the surgical procedures.
Results:
All of the 8 patients with benign clival tumors (6 cases with chordomas and 2 with meningiomas) had over 2-8 years survival and no severe complications after the surgical procedures and adjuvant radiotherapy. Fourteen of the 19 patients with malignant tumors had over 2-6 years survival (a survival rate of 73.7%) after the surgical procedures, the adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Conclusion:
Surgery of the clivus appears to be worthwhile procedure for improving outcome of the patients with advanced clival tumors.
