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Various neoplastic, vascular, and developmental causes may lead to spinal neural foraminal widening, the most common causes of spinal dumbbell lesions being schwannomas and neurofibromas. Occasionally, some other slow-growing tumors may cause neural foraminal widening. We report an exceptional case of a low-grade spinal chondrosarcoma which apparently developed from a pre-existing osteochondroma in the neural arcus of C6. The lesion passed through the C5–C6 foramen, producing a dumbbell mass.
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Received 6 August 1996; Revision received 5 November 1996; Accepted 10 December 1996
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Yünten, N., Çalli, C., Zileli, M. et al. Chondrosarcoma causing cervical neural foramen widening. Eur Radiol 7, 1028–1030 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300050246
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300050246