TY - JOUR
T1 - Chordoma
T2 - Natural history and results in 28 patients treated at a single institution
AU - Baratti, D.
AU - Gronchi, A.
AU - Pennacchioli, E.
AU - Lozza, L.
AU - Colecchia, M.
AU - Fiore, M.
AU - Santinami, M.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Background: The natural history of chordoma is characterized by a high failure rate and a poor functional outcome. The purpose of this study was to review the long-term outcome of our institutional experience. Methods: The clinical features, type of treatment, pathologic assessment, and follow-up of 56 consecutive patients with chordoma were reviewed. Results: Fifty sacral and six mobile spine chordomas (median size, 13 cm; range, 2-30 cm) were treated at our center between January 1933 and December 2000. Twenty-eight patients affected by sacrococcygeal chordoma and operated on after 1977 form the basis of our study. Surgical margins were rated as wide in 11 cases, marginal in 13 cases, and intralesional in 4 cases. The median follow-up was 71 months (range, 15-200 months). Seventeen patients' disease recurred. Ten patients died as a result of disease. Nine patients remained continuously free of disease. The estimated 5- and 10-year overall survival was, respectively, 87.8% and 48.9%; disease-free survival was 60.6% and 24.2%. Radiotherapy was considered for marginal and intralesional resections. Conclusions: High sacral amputation can achieve a good rate of wide-margin resections for sacrococcygeal chordomas. Adjuvant radiotherapy may offset the negative effect in the prognosis of marginal resections.
AB - Background: The natural history of chordoma is characterized by a high failure rate and a poor functional outcome. The purpose of this study was to review the long-term outcome of our institutional experience. Methods: The clinical features, type of treatment, pathologic assessment, and follow-up of 56 consecutive patients with chordoma were reviewed. Results: Fifty sacral and six mobile spine chordomas (median size, 13 cm; range, 2-30 cm) were treated at our center between January 1933 and December 2000. Twenty-eight patients affected by sacrococcygeal chordoma and operated on after 1977 form the basis of our study. Surgical margins were rated as wide in 11 cases, marginal in 13 cases, and intralesional in 4 cases. The median follow-up was 71 months (range, 15-200 months). Seventeen patients' disease recurred. Ten patients died as a result of disease. Nine patients remained continuously free of disease. The estimated 5- and 10-year overall survival was, respectively, 87.8% and 48.9%; disease-free survival was 60.6% and 24.2%. Radiotherapy was considered for marginal and intralesional resections. Conclusions: High sacral amputation can achieve a good rate of wide-margin resections for sacrococcygeal chordomas. Adjuvant radiotherapy may offset the negative effect in the prognosis of marginal resections.
KW - Chordoma
KW - Prognosis
KW - Radiotherapy
KW - Sacrococcygeal tumors
KW - Sarcoma
KW - Surgery
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U2 - 10.1245/ASO.2003.06.002
DO - 10.1245/ASO.2003.06.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 12679315
AN - SCOPUS:0038809972
VL - 10
SP - 291
EP - 296
JO - Annals of Surgical Oncology
JF - Annals of Surgical Oncology
SN - 1068-9265
IS - 3
ER -