A Case of C5 Vertebral Chordoma in a 73-Year-Old Patient with More Than 8 Years of Follow-Up after Total Piecemeal Spondylectomy

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Technetium bone, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computed tomography (CT) scans. (a) Technetium bone scan was useful in localizing the lesion (arrow) and no metastatic lesion was found. (b, c) The MRI scan showed a lesion of increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images in the C5 region, and the tumor is protruding into the spinal canal from the left side of the C5 vertebral body. (d) The CT scan shows the osteolytic lesion in the C5 vertebral body.