Academic Medical Center
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Site of first transorbital spinal tumor removal
A 19-year-old Maryland woman had a chordoma (striking only 300 Americans yearly) wrapped around her spine and spinal cord. The back approach meant paralysis, so surgeons cut through her eye socket (a first for spinal tumors) to extract the cancer without damaging her spinal cord, major blood vessels, or nerves controlling speech and swallowing.
Updated May 20
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