Nuchal fibrocartilaginous pseudotumor in a 10-year-old girl.
We report a case of a 10-year-old girl who, 4 years after a trauma to the neck, developed a soft tissue mass in the midline at the C5-6 level. The lesion was not attached to the bone and was composed of fibrocartilaginous tissue, similar to the nuchal fibrocartilaginous pseudotumor, a rare, recently reported condition that has been described in the medical literature in only 4 cases, all of them adults.
Department of Pathology, Hospital Clínica del Parque, Chihuahua, México. luevano@infosel.net.mx
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Luévano-Flores
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Aguirre-Madrid
D002356:Cartilage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D019902:Chondrocytes / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008022:Ligaments / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed