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Organ-Preserving Treatment Strategy for Extra-Axial Chordoma Metastatic to the Larynx Causing Airway Compromise
Jeffanie Wu1, Miriam R Smetak2, Madelyn N Stevens2
1Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
Abstract:
Chordomas are rare, malignant bone tumors that arise from embryological remnants of the notochord, typically affecting the skull base, mobile spine, and sacrum with uncommon metastasis to the larynx. Patients with metastasis to the larynx may present with slowly progressive dysphonia and dyspnea. Here, we report an organ-preservation treatment strategy for a patient with widely metastatic extra-axial chordoma presenting with airway compromise who was found to have a new metastasis to the cricoid cartilage.
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Trachea
Anatomical Features:
Location: About half of the trachea is situated in the neck, anterior to the esophagus, and extends from the larynx (at the level of...

