[Cervical and para-pharyngeal bone tumors: two cases report].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of the study was to report two cases of cervical and para-pharyngeal bone tumors.


METHODS
Patients were two 29 and 67-year-old men. Presentation of the lesions included respectively a right cervical mass and a left para-pharyngeal mass. Clinical features and radiological, anatomopathological and therapeutic characteristics of the tumors were retrospectively studied.


RESULTS
A cervical approach was made in both cases. Tumor biopsies revealed a vertebral aneurismal cyst and a corporeo-pedicular chordoma respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
Vertebral bone tumors with cervical expression are very uncommon entities. Diagnosis could be systematically evoked in patients with a cervical or para-pharyngeal tumor presenting vertebral lysis.
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Service ORL et Chirurgie Cervico-faciale, Hôpital Gabriel Montpied, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, BP 69, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 1.
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