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Primary chordoma of the ethmoid sinus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

S Loughran
Affiliation:
Professorial Unit, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK.
L. Badia
Affiliation:
Professorial Unit, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK.
V. Lund
Affiliation:
Professorial Unit, The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK.

Abstract

Primary chordoma of the paranasal sinuses are extremely rare tumours, with only a small number of cases verified and published in the literature. It appears that only five of these cases involved the ethmoid sinuses either as a primary or by local invasion, and of these documented cases only one other has been found to solely involve the ethmoid sinus. We present a case of primary ethmoid sinus chordoma treated by wide local surgical excision and present a review of the literature with regard to prevalence and treatment rationale.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2000

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