title: Chondrosarcoma causing cervical neural foramen widening.
abstract: Various neoplastic, vascular, and developmental causes may lead to spinal neural foraminal widening, the most common causes of spinal dumbbell lesions being schwannomas and neurofibromas. Occasionally, some other slow-growing tumors may cause neural foraminal widening. We report an exceptional case of a low-grade spinal chondrosarcoma which apparently developed from a pre-existing osteochondroma in the neural arcus of C6. The lesion passed through the C5-C6 foramen, producing a dumbbell mass.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Ege University Hospital, Bornova, Izmir, 35100, Turkey.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yünten
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Calli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zileli
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Ustün
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Sener
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed