Metastasizing chordoma in early childhood: report of a case at 1.5 T.
We present here the first report of an extraskeletal metastasizing presacral chordoma found in a child. MRI of this large lesion showed heterogeneous signal intensity on both the SE 550/30 and on SE 2440/100 images. MRI demonstrated this mass to be separate from the sacrum and provided nonionizing cross-sectional imaging prior to attempted surgical resection.
Horton
K M
KM
Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill 27599-7515.
Levey
M S
MS
Owl-Smith
F A
FA
Azizkhan
R G
RG
Schiebler
M L
ML
D002675:Child, Preschool; D002817:Chordoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed