title: Metastasizing chordoma in early childhood: report of a case at 1.5 T.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill 27599-7515.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Levey
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Owl-Smith
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Azizkhan
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Schiebler
mesh_terms: 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