PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Grand, S
AU  - Lantuejoul, S
AU  - Ferretti, G
AU  - Reyt, E
AU  - Le Bas, J F
TI  - Fibromyxoma of the retropharyngeal space: MR appearance with pathologic correlation.
DP  - 1998 Oct 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1793--1795
VI  - 19
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/19/9/1793.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/19/9/1793.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1998 Oct 01; 19
AB  - A 19-year-old woman reported difficulties in swallowing and breathing. A submucosal mass, shown by MR imaging in the retropharyngeal space, was the cause of her symptoms. Histologically, the mass proved to be a fibromyxoma. The oval well-delineated lesion appeared hypointense relative to muscle and strongly enhanced after injection of contrast material on T1-weighted images; on T2-weighted images, it appeared hyperintense, and was seen to contain fibrous septa, which were hypointense on all sequences. This case delineates the characteristic MR features of a fibrous component within a rare benign tumor of the retropharyngeal space.