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| Issue : 2 | Page : 145-147 |
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Skull base chordoma presenting as nasopharyngeal mass with lymph node metastasis
Bhawna Bhutoria Jain1, Soma Datta1, Suparna Ghosh Roy2, Uma Banerjee1
1 Department of Pathology, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Radiotherapy, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Bhawna Bhutoria Jain
862 Block-P, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700 053
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0970-9371.112662
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Spheno-occipital chordomas can rarely present as nasopharyngeal mass. Metastases occur only in advanced disease. They can pose a diagnostic dilemma when information about diagnosis of the primary tumor is not available. We present cytological findings in upper cervical lymph node of a case of nasopharyngeal chordoma and discuss possible differential in such a location. |
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