[Imaging of cervical and thoracic chordoma. Apropos of 2 cases].
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.
Winants
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Service de Radiologie, CHRU de Nancy, Hôpital central.
Bertal
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Hennequin
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Fays
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Bernadac
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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
Imagerie des chordomes cervicaux et thoraciques. A propos de 2 observations.