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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Arquivos Brasileiros de Neurocirurgia: Brazilian Neurosurgery 2022; 41(03): e270-e274
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1719010
Case Report

Isolated Intradural Prepontine Chordoma Presenting with Imaging Features of Epidermoid Cyst

Cordoma pré-pontino intradural isolado apresentando características de imagem de cisto epidermóide
Babak Alijani 
1   Guilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
2   Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
,
Ahmad Kheiri Namin 
3   Resident of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
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Abstract

Chordoma is an erratic aggressive tumor of the brain that typically involves the clivus. The majority of the clivus chordomas reside in the extradural space. Here, we report a unique case of chordoma arising from the prepontine intradural space without bony involvement and presenting with radiological features typical of an epidermoid cyst on magnetic resonance imaging.

Keywords

cyst - epidermoid - chordoma - clivus - differential diagnosis - MRI - prepontine


Publication History

Received: 12 August 2020

Accepted: 15 September 2020

Article published online:
23 September 2022

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