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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2022

Thoracic chordoma in a 36-year-old female.

Austin C Kassels, Joshua Melamed, Austin Rogers, David Johnstone

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Multifocal Ectopic Recurrence of a C2 Chordoma.Journal of neurological surgery reports · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Austin C KasselsDepartment of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Joshua MelamedDepartment of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Austin RogersDepartment of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-7095
David JohnstoneDepartment of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Medical College of Wisconsin · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chordomas are rare tumors that occur in the bones of the skull base and spine, affecting 1 in 1 000 000 people per year. Thoracic chordomas comprise just 1% of chordomas. A 36-year-old female underwent a right video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical resection for a cystic mass at the level of T2-3 which was well-circumscribed. Despite efforts to achieve an intact resection, there was tumor spillage due to friability, and it was taken off the bony vertebral body with no margin. The final pathologic diagnosis was chordoma. Thoracic chordomas are rare, slow-growing, recurring neoplasms that require proper preoperative diagnostic imaging and ideally preoperative trocar computed tomography-guided biopsy from a posterior approach if anatomic access is possible. They are prone to dissemination and sarcomatous differentiation. The surgical approaches for reported thoracic chordoma tumors vary due to their rarity and the variation in tumor location and presentation.

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PMID36479224
PMCPMC9722240
OpenAlexW4310718353

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