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Chordoma Skull Base Tumor Care by Experts at Mayo Clinic

Choose Mayo Clinic for chordoma skull base tumor care by the most highly specialized experts in the world. You’ll have the benefit of advanced treatments and technologies designed to reduce hospital stays, lower complication rates, shorten your recovery time, and focusing on excellent long term outcomes. Mayo Clinic is a high-volume neurosurgical center with deep experience in providing accurate diagnosis and comprehensive care for chordoma skull base tumor. Our commitment is to support your health and well-being, so you can get back to living your life. 

Seeing the unseeable with advanced technologies.

At Mayo Clinic, you can expect rapid testing and assessment with the latest imaging and diagnostic tools. Mayo Clinic neurologists and neurosurgeons work with experienced nerve tissue analysts to identify chordoma.

Comprehensive care with your best interest in mind.

Treatment may include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or other medications. Sometimes the right procedure is no procedure. Mayo Clinic experts are paid a fixed salary. They are not paid based on the number of procedures or tests ordered. We will recommend surgery only when necessary, and when other less-invasive approaches have been ruled out. 


With Mayo Clinic, you’ll have the benefit of:

  • Innovative surgical approaches. We use 3D printing technology, minimally invasive procedures, and surgery enhancing technologies to plan and perform surgery with greater precision, smaller incisions, lower complications rates, and a quicker recovery.

Leading specialists and coordinated care. 

At Mayo Clinic, you’ll have a team of experts working together to plan your treatment, provide test results quickly, and coordinate your appointments. What might take months to accomplish elsewhere can typically be done in a matter of days at Mayo Clinic.


Your care team may include neuroradiologists, neuropathologists, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, orthopedic oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, neurologists with subspecialty expertise in tumor diagnosis and management, rehabilitation specialists, and other professionals. Depending on your specific tumor, your surgery may include thoracic, orthopedic, cardiac, general, and plastic surgeons all working together.

Nationally recognized for expertise.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is ranked #1 for Neurology and Neurosurgery in the Midwest by U.S. News and World Report.


Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is ranked #1 for Neurology care by Newsweek’s World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2025 list.

While U.S. News only reports national specialty rankings and doesn't rank specialties at the regional or state level, Mayo Clinic evaluates whether a hospital outperforms others in its region or state based on national rankings.

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