Chondrosarcoma of Thoracic Spine - A case report -

제 12 흉추체에 발생한 일차적 연골 육종 (증례 보고)

Although chondrosarcoma is a common primary malignant bone tumor, its occurrence in the spine is very rare. It is also well known that even after complete removal of chondrosarcoma in bone, not a few recurrence is possible. Surgical cure of a spinal chondrosarcoma is even more difficult because total excision of chondrosarcoma is usually impossible in the spine. No patients with spinal chondrosarcoma surviving more than 18 years has been reported in literature. We are reporting one patient(32 year old housewife) with chondrosarcoma at the $12^{th}$ thoracic spine which was treated with complete corpectomy of the $12^{th}$ thoracic vertebral body and rib and cancellous bone graft fixed with plating. She was followed for more than 3 years without local recurrence or distant metastasis.

가톨릭 의과대학 정형외과에서는 32세 여자 환자의 제 12 흉추체에 발생한 발생 빈도가 드문, 일차성 연골 육종을 전방 도달법으로 추체 절제후 금속판 내고정과 함께 늑골 및 자가 해면골 이식술을 병행하여 치료후 42개월을 추적 관찰한 결과 국소재발 소견없이 정상생활 중이어서, 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.