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Metastasising chordoma to the mandible from a rare vertebral site: the first reported case.

Kulamarva G, Wilbourn M, Anand R, Mourouzis C, Spedding AV, Brennan PA

Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK.

Chordoma is a rare tumor, arising from notochord remnants, which usually occurs in the axial skeleton and rarely metastasizes. Although there have been 3 previous reports of metastatic disease to the facial bones from sacrococcygeal chordoma, this is the first to describe spread to the mandible from a vertebral primary chordoma.

Published 16 July 2007 in Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod, 104(2): 240-2.
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