Extreme Lateral Transcondylar Craniectomy for Resectino of Recurrent Clival Chordoma

This surgery is for the part of the brain that connects the skull to the neck (anterior part of the medulla).

The patient has a large, gray cancerous tumor called a chordoma that has been operated on three times elsewhere. Because the patient has already been operated three times, the brain had high adhesion; For this reason, the surgeon performed this surgery slowly and moved forward layer by layer to remove the tumor.

The doctor and the surgical team changed the vein to remove the bone and reach the tumor; Without putting pressure on the nerves, arteries and brain. This surgery lasted 12 hours and 15 minutes, and finally by removing the tumor, the pressure was removed from the nerve.