title: Imaging features of posterior mediastinal chordoma in a child.
abstract: A 5 1/2-year-old boy presented with repeated episodes of stridor and cough. Chest radiography demonstrated a widened mediastinum. Evaluation by CT revealed a low-density posterior mediastinal mass initially diagnosed as benign tumor. Histopathological analysis of the resected mass disclosed a malignant chordoma. Our radiological results are described with an analysis of the imaging findings in the medical literature. We present our suggestions for preoperative evaluation of posterior mediastinal tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. m_soudack@rambam.health.gov.il
authors.forename: Michalle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soudack
authors.forename: Ludmilla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guralnik
authors.forename: Alon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben-Nun
authors.forename: Drora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berkowitz
authors.forename: Sergey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Postovsky
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vlodavsky
authors.forename: Ahuva
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Engel
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002817:Chordoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012135:Respiratory Sounds; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed