흉추에 발생한 척색종의 치험 1례

초록

Chordomas are congenital tumor which develop from remnant of the notochord. Most of them arise at the clivus Blumenbachii, at the junction of the sphenoidal and occipital bones or sacrococcygeal region. Rarely chordomas arise at the thoracic spine, which compress the spinal cord epidurally and, sometimes invade the substance of the spinal cord. The authors report a case of chordoma at T 9-T 10 vertebral level in which the characteristic "physaliferous" cells were found in the slides of operative specimen. The tumor was compressing the spinal cord and extending into body and lamsime of the vertebra, which resulted the patient, 52 year-old Korean male, in paraplegia.