Sunday, 14 April 2013

CASE 178: CHORDOMA, Dr LÝ VĂN PHÁI, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM


56-year-old female patient from Tra Vinh province. She's undergoing  low back pain  more than 1 year, recently appeared constipation. Spinal x-ray shows destruction of the sacrococcygeal bone. 
 

Ultrasound shows lesion that is a  heterogeneous hypoechoic solid tumor, size 72 x42 x 62 mm, inner tumor to be calcified.
 


 

MRI shows tumor from sacrococcygeal bone, dimension = 5 x 6.5 x 7cm, high density on T2W1 and low on T1W1.

 




Patient underwent surgery at Cho Ray hospital. Histopathologic report is  chordoma.

 

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