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Coccydynia due to a benign notochordal cell tumor
Carl Haasper1, Florian Länger, Herbert Rosenthal
1Trauma Department, Hannover Medical School, Germany. Haasper.carl@mh-hannover.de
Study Design:
Case report.
Objective:
To present a rare case of a notochordal cell tumor.
Summary Of Background Data:
We report on a 27-year-old female patient with pain at the lower back and muscle cramps in the area of the right hip. Image studies demonstrated a cystic lesion of the coccyx.
Methods:
As clinical symptoms became chronic and were resistant to conservative treatment, a resection of the coccyx was performed.
Results:
Histology revealed an intraosseous benign notochordal cell tumor. This tumor represents a recently described notochordal cell proliferation biologically distinct from chordomas.
Conclusions:
Overdiagnosis of these notochordal cell proliferations as chordomas may occur if clinicians and pathologists are unfamiliar with the spectrum of notochordal proliferations.
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