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Case Reports
. 2025 Feb 10;10(4):101736.
doi: 10.1016/j.adro.2025.101736. eCollection 2025 Apr.

First Application of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for Recurrent Clival Chordoma With Brainstem Abutment

Hung-Ruei Liao  1 , Tien-Li Lan  1 , Chun-Fu Lin  2 , Yi-Yen Lee  2 , Ko-Han Lin  3 , Feng-Chi Chang  4 , Shih-Chieh Lin  5 , Jia-Cheng Lee  1 , Fong-In Chou  6 , Jinn-Jer Peir  6 , Hong-Ming Liu  6 , Yu-Wei Hu  7 , Yi-Wei Chen  1
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First Application of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for Recurrent Clival Chordoma With Brainstem Abutment

Hung-Ruei Liao et al. Adv Radiat Oncol. .
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) Axial and (B) coronal views of the brain positron emission tomography scan on August 17, 2023, showing a 1.7 × 1.4 cm nodule with a tumor-to-normal tissue ratio of 3.69. (C) Transverse and (D) coronal views of the brain positron emission tomography scan on January 19, 2024, showing a regressive change of the tumor with a tumor-to-normal tissue ratio of 2.83.
Figure 2
Figure 2
T2-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging axial view with a 4 mm slice thickness for clival chordoma. (A) Imaging on June 24, 2023, before boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), (B) on December 22, 2023, after the first BNCT, and (C) on May 13, 2024, after the second BNCT. In all 3 series (A-C), image 2 represents the slice showing the tumor at its largest dimension, while images 1 and 3 correspond to magnetic resonance imaging slices taken 4 mm above and below image 2, respectively.
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