[Chordoma of the throat: twenty years later]

The authors have presented the description of nasopharyngeal chordoma 28 years after the first diagnose and treatment with Co-60 application of this. Very slow, almost thirty years growth of the tumor has been noticed. The difficulties of the radical treatment, either radiotherapy or surgery have been pointed out in the case of clivus chordoma. The authors have presented too the long-term results of this very rare appearance tumor treatment, based on the review of the literature.