Thoracic chordoma mimicking a neurogenic tumour.
A case of chordoma arising in the thoracic spine of a 20-year-old man is presented. Plain film and magnetic resonance imaging findings are included. The case is unusual in that the neoplasm presented as dumb-bell-shaped extradural mass, traversing and expanding a thoracic neural foramen and thereby mimicking a neurogenic tumour.
Holden
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Department of Radiology, Auckland Hospital, Grafton, New Zealand.
Khangure
M
M
Robins
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P
D000328:Adult; D002817:Chordoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009380:Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae