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Imaging features of posterior mediastinal chordoma in a child

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A 5½-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.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Rambam Health Care Campus, 8 Ha’Aliyah St., Haifa, 35254, Israel

    Michalle Soudack, Ludmilla Guralnik & Ahuva Engel

  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Alon Ben-Nun

  3. Department of Pediatrics B, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Drora Berkowitz

  4. Department of Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Sergey Postovsky

  5. Department of Pathology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Eugene Vlodavsky

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Soudack, M., Guralnik, L., Ben-Nun, A. et al. Imaging features of posterior mediastinal chordoma in a child. Pediatr Radiol 37, 492–497 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-007-0420-6

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