Epidural dumbbell-shaped chordoma mimicking a neurinoma.
The authors present a case of cervical chordoma which manifested in a 5-year-old boy as a dumbbell-shaped epidural tumor without bone destruction. Both CT and MRI demonstrated tumor features suggesting this diagnosis, which was confirmed by histology.
Karakida
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Department of Radiology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto 390, Japan.
Aoki
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Seo
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GS
Ishii
K
K
Sone
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Nakakouji
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T
Otsuka
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D002817:Chordoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015174:Epidural Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed