Wu Jeffanie, Smetak Miriam R, Stevens Madelyn N, Lewis James S, Netterville James L
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Ear Nose Throat J. 2024 Jan;103(1):NP1-NP3. doi: 10.1177/01455613211037639. Epub 2021 Jul 31.
Chordomas are rare, malignant bone tumors that arise from embryological remnants of the notochord, typically affecting the skull base, mobile spine, and sacrum with uncommon metastasis to the larynx. Patients with metastasis to the larynx may present with slowly progressive dysphonia and dyspnea. Here, we report an organ-preservation treatment strategy for a patient with widely metastatic extra-axial chordoma presenting with airway compromise who was found to have a new metastasis to the cricoid cartilage.