Endoscope-assisted far-lateral transcondylar approach for craniocervical junction chordomas: a retrospective case series and cadaveric dissection

CONCLUSIONS: The EA-FLTA provides a safe and effective corridor to resect extensive and complex CCJ chordomas, allowing the surgeon to reach the anterior, lateral, and posterior portions of the tumor, and to treat CCJ instability in a single stage.PMID:33799304 | DOI:10.3171/2020.9.JNS202611

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - April 2, 2021 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Arianna Fava Paolo di Russo Valentina Tardivo Thibault Passeri Breno C âmara Nicolas Penet Rosaria Abbritti Lorenzo Giammattei Hamid Mammar Anne Laure Bernat Emmanuel Mandonnet S ébastien Froelich Source Type: research