Giant Vertebral Notochordal Rest
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology
- Vol. 27 (3), 396-406
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000478-200303000-00015
Abstract
A 14-year-old boy with severe back pain for several years is described. Roentgenograms, bone scans, and computed tomographic scans of the spine were normal, but magnetic resonance imaging studies showed a lumbar vertebral body lesion, confined to the bone, with low T1- and high T2-weighted signal intensities. Histologically, the lesion consisted of sheet-like notochordal-type tissue, containing physaliphorous cells but lacking the usual features of chordoma. A diagnosis of giant notochordal rest was made. A review of prior possible examples of this recently described and controversial entity is made with a discussion of its embryologic foundations and distinction from chordoma.This publication has 45 references indexed in Scilit:
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