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Ectopic macroprolactinoma mimicking a chordoma: a case report.
A tumoral mass at the clivus is uncommon and its differential diagnosis presents a challenge, since many different tumours may result in a similar radiological image. A chordoma is the most common of these tumours and represents 40% of all cases. Less common, in decreasing order of frequency, are meningiomas, astrocytoma, germinal cell tumours, lymphoma, metastases and, finally, pituitary adeno...
متن کاملChordoma
PURPOSES To review in the literature, all the epidemiological, clinical, radiological, histological and therapeutic data regarding chordomas as well as various notochordal entities: ecchordosis physaliphora, intradural and intraparenchymatous chordomas, benign notochordal cell tumors, parachordomas and extra-axial chordomas. To identify different types of chordomas, including familial forms, as...
متن کاملClival Ectopic Pituitary Adenoma Mimicking a Chordoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Background. Purely ectopic pituitary adenomas are exceedingly rare. Here we report on a patient that presented with an incidental clival mass thought to be a chordoma. Endonasal resection, tumor pathology, and endocrinology workup revealed a prolactinoma. Case Presentation. A 41-year-old male presented with an incidental clival lesion presumed to be a chordoma. On MRI it involved the entire cli...
متن کاملThoracic chordoma.
Dra. Rita Delgado – Rua Borges Lagoa 1080 / 307 04038-002 São Paulo SP Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Chordomas are slow-growing tumors with aggressive local behavior that probably originate from embryonic remnants of the notochord. This is a midline structure along the neural tube that presents involution and fragmentation as ossification of the axial skeleton occurs, in such way that i...
متن کاملThoracic chordoma.
Remnants of the notochord sometimes become activated into tumour formation; Ribbert (1895) established the origin of such tumours, and called them chordomata. They can arise at any point along the length of the original notochord, and Coenen (1925) first classified them according to their site of origin into cranial, vertebral, and caudal or sacro-coccygeal. Mabrey (1935) in a comprehensive rev...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Surgical Neurology International
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2152-7806
DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.85986