[Cervical and para-pharyngeal bone tumors: two cases report]

Ann Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac. 2005 Dec;122(6):295-302. doi: 10.1016/s0003-438x(05)82364-3.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of the study was to report two cases of cervical and para-pharyngeal bone tumors.

Material and methods: Patients were two 29 and 67-year-old men. Presentation of the lesions included respectively a right cervical mass and a left para-pharyngeal mass. Clinical features and radiological, anatomopathological and therapeutic characteristics of the tumors were retrospectively studied.

Results: A cervical approach was made in both cases. Tumor biopsies revealed a vertebral aneurismal cyst and a corporeo-pedicular chordoma respectively.

Conclusion: Vertebral bone tumors with cervical expression are very uncommon entities. Diagnosis could be systematically evoked in patients with a cervical or para-pharyngeal tumor presenting vertebral lysis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical
  • Head and Neck Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Head and Neck Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Head and Neck Neoplasms / surgery
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pharynx
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Skull Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Skull Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Skull Neoplasms / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed