A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings

The authors describe a rare case of inflammatory pseudotumor involving the clivus, where a soft tissue mass lesion, with extension into the prevertebral retropharyngeal space and the cavernous sinuses, was detected by CT and MRI. The mass resembled a malignant tumor or aggressive infectious lesion,...

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Autores principales: Lee, Jae Hee, Kim, Kijun, Chung, Sung Woo, Choi, Yong Chul, Lee, Ahnhi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2001
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11754331
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2001.2.4.231
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author Lee, Jae Hee
Kim, Kijun
Chung, Sung Woo
Choi, Yong Chul
Lee, Ahnhi
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description The authors describe a rare case of inflammatory pseudotumor involving the clivus, where a soft tissue mass lesion, with extension into the prevertebral retropharyngeal space and the cavernous sinuses, was detected by CT and MRI. The mass resembled a malignant tumor or aggressive infectious lesion, and the final diagnosis of inflammatory pseudotumor was a diagnosis of exclusion, decided after histopathological examination.
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spelling pubmed-27181262009-07-30 A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings Lee, Jae Hee Kim, Kijun Chung, Sung Woo Choi, Yong Chul Lee, Ahnhi Korean J Radiol Case Report The authors describe a rare case of inflammatory pseudotumor involving the clivus, where a soft tissue mass lesion, with extension into the prevertebral retropharyngeal space and the cavernous sinuses, was detected by CT and MRI. The mass resembled a malignant tumor or aggressive infectious lesion, and the final diagnosis of inflammatory pseudotumor was a diagnosis of exclusion, decided after histopathological examination. The Korean Radiological Society 2001 2001-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2718126/ /pubmed/11754331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2001.2.4.231 Text en Copyright © 2001 The Korean Radiological Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Lee, Jae Hee
Kim, Kijun
Chung, Sung Woo
Choi, Yong Chul
Lee, Ahnhi
A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings
title A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings
title_full A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings
title_fullStr A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings
title_full_unstemmed A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings
title_short A Case Report of Inflammatory Pseudotumor Involving the Clivus: CT and MR Findings
title_sort case report of inflammatory pseudotumor involving the clivus: ct and mr findings
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11754331
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2001.2.4.231
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