Malignant degeneration of a lumbar osteochondroma into a chondrosarcoma which mimicked a large retropertioneal mass

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1319-1322

  Strovski, Evgeny ^a   Ali, Rola ^a   Graeb, Douglas A ^a   Munk, Peter L ^a   Chang, Silvia D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chondrosarcoma; Lumbar; Malignant degeneration; Osteochondroma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDROMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SPINE FRACTURE;

ADULT; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHONDROSARCOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OSTEOCHONDROMA; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866092323     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: 14322161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-012-1405-6     Document Type: Article

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