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Radiotherapy, Radiosurgery, and Proton Beam

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Midline Skull Base Surgery

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Chordomas of the skull base are rare bone tumors with locally aggressive behavior. Surgery is the primary treatment of skull base chordomas, although long-term observation series have shown its limitation in achieving a complete removal of the lesion due to the critical location and the infiltrative patterns into the bone and neurovascular structures of the skull base.

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  1. Radiation Oncology Unit, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sant’ Andrea Hospital, University Sapienza, Via di Grottarossa 1035, Rome, 00189, Italy

    Giuseppe Minniti MD & Claudia Scaringi MD

  2. Department of Neuroscience, Neuromed Institute, Pozzilli, IS, Italy

    Giuseppe Minniti MD

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  1. Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Naples “Federico II” , Naples, Italy

    Paolo Cappabianca

  2. Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Naples “Federico II” , Naples, Italy

    Luigi Maria Cavallo

  3. Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Naples “Federico II” , Naples, Italy

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Minniti, G., Scaringi, C. (2016). Radiotherapy, Radiosurgery, and Proton Beam. In: Cappabianca, P., Cavallo, L., de Divitiis, O., Esposito, F. (eds) Midline Skull Base Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4_28

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