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Case Reports
. 2021 Oct 4;9(10):e04904.
doi: 10.1002/ccr3.4904. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Ten years of battle with multiple recurrences of pediatric skull base chondrosarcoma: A case report

Mona Ariamanesh  1 , Rana Tafrishi  2 , Mansoureh Dehghani  1 , Mehdi Bakhshai  3 , Seyed Alireza Javadinia  4 , Seyyed Morteza Hosseini  5 , Mohammad Nematshahi  6 , James S Welsh  7 , Pejman Porouhan  8
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Ten years of battle with multiple recurrences of pediatric skull base chondrosarcoma: A case report

Mona Ariamanesh et al. Clin Case Rep. .

Abstract

In children and adolescents presenting with skull base sarcoma, treatment strategies will face challenging decisions due to the unique chemoresistant pathologies, limitations imposed by the not-yet fully mature anatomical structures, and the small surgical site.

Keywords: chondrosarcoma; proptosis; skull base.

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Conflict of interest statement

Authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Microscopic tumor morphology in favor of a diagnosis of low‐grade chondrosarcoma. (green arrow: binucleation of chondrocytes, red arrow: large, highly atypical chondrocyte) (Left: Low Power Field, Right: High Power Field)
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
(A) Initial CT imaging indicating the diagnosis of skull base tumor. (B) Post‐surgical changes and complete excision demonstrated in the first post‐surgical CT imaging. (C) Final MRI imaging indicating a large heterogeneous tumoral mass which remained stable after radiation therapy
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