Fatal acute pontocerebellar hemorrhage due to an unsuspected spheno-occipital chordoma.
Patients with cranial chordomas typically present with a several-month history of progressive cranial nerve palsies. We report the first case (to our knowledge) of a clinically unsuspected sphenooccipital chordoma evolving into an acute pontocerebellar hemorrhage.
Franquemont
D W
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Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908.
Katsetos
C D
CD
Ross
G W
GW
D000208:Acute Disease; D002817:Chordoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009777:Occipital Bone; D011149:Pons / Q000473:pathology; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013100:Sphenoid Bone; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology