Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences
Online ISSN : 1880-2206
Print ISSN : 1347-3182
ISSN-L : 1347-3182
Clinical Image
Diffusion-weighted Imaging of an Atypical Teratoid/rhabdoid Tumor of the Cervical Spine
Tetsu NIWA, Noriko AIDA, Mio TANAKA, Jun OKUBO, Mari SASANO, Ayako SHISHIKURA, Kazutoshi FUJITA, Susumu ITO, Yukichi TANAKA, Hisato KIGASAWA
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Keywords: atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, diffusion-weighted imaging, spine
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2009 Volume 8 Issue 3 Pages 135-138

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Abstract

Spinal atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) is a rare, aggressive malignant neoplasm of the central nervous system usually seen in young children and infants. We present diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) findings for an intradural extramedullary AT/RT in the cervical spine of a 6-year-old boy. High signal on DWI and low apparent diffusion coefficients may represent high cellularity of the tumor. These findings indicated a highly malignant tumor.

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