Two surgeons, Dr. Mohamed A.M. Labib, M.D., CM, neurosurgeon and assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) and Andrea M. Hebert, M.D., MPH, head and neck surgeon and an associate professor of otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine removed a spine tumor through a patient’s eye socket in what appears to be the first time this particular approach was used to access the cervical spine.
That patient, a 19-year-old with two chordoma tumors, a rare (literally one in a million) slow-growing, malignant tumor that arise from remnants of the embryonic notochord, a structure that helps form the spinal column during fetal development, presented when the tumor began impinging on the patient’s cervical spine cord. These tumors most commonly occur in the skull base and sacrum (lower back).
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