A Case Study in Sacral Chordoma

— A neurosurgeon explores the management of a patient with a sacro-coccygeal mass

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, associate professor of neurosurgery, discusses a case of a patient presenting with a mass in the sacro-coccygeal region. Using a CT–guided biopsy, the patient was diagnosed with a sacral chordoma, subsequently resected en bloc. He provides an overview of how predication criteria is used at Johns Hopkins to determine a patient's outcome based on the nerve root surgical intervention.

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