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Table 3 Clinical outcome according to primary local treatment of 25 chordoma patients.

From: Chordoma: clinical characteristics, management and prognosis of a case series of 25 patients

Treatment

No.

Local P or R

Distant metastases

NED*

AWD*

Dead*

Wide S alone

5

1

2

1 (20)

1 (11)

3 (2 NED)

(3-123)

Intralesional S alone

14

13

2

1 (8)

9 (4-123)

4 (26-149)

Wide S+RT

-

-

-

-

-

-

Intralesional S+RT

3

3

2

-

2 (102-130)

1 (62)

Diagnostic biopsy only

3

1

1

 

2 (6-63)

1 (2)

RT alone

-

-

-

-

-

-

  1. * months (range)
  2. S: surgery; RT: radiotherapy: P: progression; R: recurrence; NED: not evidence of disease; AWD: alive with disease.