Analysis on the treatment of four cases with sacrococcygeal chordoma.

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Four cases with sacrococcygeal chordoma seen and treated at our department from 1971 to 1983 are reported, with an average age of 63.8 years, ranging from 57 to 69, and a male sex predominance of three to one. Excision of the tumor in two patients could not result in a cure, of whom one has a recurrent tumor with a metastatic lesion in the right lower lung, and the other had undergone excisions of recurrent nodules three times since the original operation, but his tumor could not be resected perfectly. For one of the remainder, radiation therapy alone had been employed with the results of some regression of the tumor. However the patient died of heart failure 8 years and 4 months after the first visit to our department. Another is alive without surgical treatment, but some neurological symptoms and signs of lower extremities are slowly progressing. Although three patients have survived 2, 3 and 3 years respectively after treatment, they all have the evidence of the disease.
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