title: [Imaging of cervical and thoracic chordoma. Apropos of 2 cases].
abstract: Chordoma is a rare tumor in spine. Two cases, exceptional in adolescents, are reported. The clinical evolution is slow and progressive. CT shows a lobulated tumor, precises the degree of vertebral osteolysis and detects intra-tumoral calcifications. MRI is useful to determine especially in high in soft tissues and the vertebral canal. Arteriography is realised in pre-operative time and permits an embolization when the tumor is hypervascularised.
authors.affiliation: Service de Radiologie, CHRU de Nancy, Hôpital central.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Winants
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bertal
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hennequin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fays
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bernadac
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000792:Angiography; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D002648:Child; D002817:Chordoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Imagerie des chordomes cervicaux et thoraciques. A propos de 2 observations.