Chondrosarcoma of the nasal septum:
A case report.

Chondrosarcoma make up only 10-20% of malignant primary bone tumors, with 5-10% located in the head and neck (Downey TJ, Clark SK, Moore DW. Chondrosarcoma of the nasal septum. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2001;125:98-100), and nasal septal chondrosarcoma is extremely rare.

Surgical excision is the only curative treatment and radiation and chemotherapy have a limited role for palliation.

We used a navigation system in endoscopic surgery without complications for a case of chondrosarcoma of the nasal septum by means of a midfacial degloving approach at primary operation and an external incision approach at salvage operation for local recurrence.

To our knowledge, this is the first report of the use of such a system for this surgical approach along with a salvage operation. We discuss the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of this case as well as present a review of the literature.

PMID: 19282118 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

From:
Auris Nasus Larynx. 2009 Mar 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Kainuma K, Netsu K, Asamura K, Hayashi K, Takumi Y, Ota H, Usami SI.
Department of Otolaryngology,
Shinshu University School of Medicine,
Asahi 3-1-1, Matsumoto, 390-8621, Japan.

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