Talk:Chordoma

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Chordoma.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

External links

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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and while it may occasionally be useful to patients or their families, it is not a web directory for support groups. Please do not re-insert links that do not conform to the standard rules. Any editor, BTW, is welcome to read all of the rules and perform an "audit" in the remaining links. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ABCNews article on first 3D printed vertebra to replace resected veterbra and space where tumor was

Here's a news article on a world first operation to use a 3D printed vertebra on a chordoma patient.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-22/tumour-patient-gets-worlds-first-3d-printed-vertebrae/7183132
Is this a suitable link for wikipedia, or should one wait another year for the peer reviewed journal article?
Salbayeng (talk) 07:24, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link for images

Hi This link is dead : Images of Chordoma - mostly radiological (CT and MRI scans), one autopsy image .

It points to here, http://rad.usuhs.edu/medpix/medpix.html ,
see https://www.usuhs.edu/rad/medpix but all the images have moved to "medpix" https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/home , but the NIH doesn't have a search facility yet.
This search result shows a lot of chordoma images, but a bit scattered. https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/gridquery.php?q=chordoma
Ok Having looked more at that web site, it would seem worth including as an external reference, as you get case details by hovering over each image. Salbayeng (talk) 07:54, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]