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Review
. 2015 Jul 23:21:213.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2015.21.213.6639. eCollection 2015.

Paravertebral extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma: a case report and review of the literature

Fatima Zahra Farhane  1 , Zineb Alami  1 , Touria Bouhafa  1 , Abderrahmane Elmazghi  1 , Khalid Hassouni  1
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Review

Paravertebral extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma: a case report and review of the literature

Fatima Zahra Farhane et al. Pan Afr Med J. .

Abstract

The extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (CME) is a rare malignant soft tissue tumour described as a distinct clinical, histological, immunohistochemical, genetical and evolutive entity. It represents only 2.5% of soft tissue sarcomas. Its individualization is important because it has a long and indolent clinical course, and tumour-related death often occurs after a long survival period. The diagnostic key is morphological supported by immunohistochemistry and genetics t (9; 22) that allow differentiating it from other tumours with myxoid stroma and from chordoma. This report describes a patient with paravertebral extraskeletal myxoid chondrosrcoma with a high locoregional extension.

Keywords: Extraskleletal myxoid chondrosarcoma; malignant tumour; paravertebral.

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Figure 1
Preoperative MRI shows lesion with low signal in T1WI and heterogeneous high signal in T2WI
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Figure 2
Postperative MRI shows lesion with low signal in T1WI and heterogeneous high signal in T2WI
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