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KMID : 0613319970030020131
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Journal of the Korean Bone and Joint Tumor Soceity
1997 Volume.3 No. 2 p.131 ~ p.136
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Chondrosarcoma of Thoracic Spine
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Rhee Seung-Koo
Kim Ki-Won
Kim Jeong-Ho
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Abstract
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Although chondrosarcoma is a common primary malignant bone tumor, its occurrence in the spine is very rare. It is also well known that even after complete removal of chondrosarcoma in bone, not a few recurrence is possible. Surgical cure of a spinal chondrosarcoma is even more difficult because total excision of chondrosarcoma is ususlly impossible in the spine. No patients with spinal chondrosarcoma surviving more than 18 years has been reported in literature.
We are reporting one patient[32 year old housewife] with chondrosarcoma at the 12th thoracic spine swhich was treated with complete corpectomy of the 12th thoracic vertebral body and rib and cancellous bone graft fixed with plating. She was followed for more than 3 years without local recurrence or distant metastasis.
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KEYWORD
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Chondrosarcoma, Spine
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