Chordoma - thumbing the pons sign (illustration)

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard
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Chordomas have been described as projection posteriorly from the clivus like a thumb. Sort of like this. 

Original thumb image taken by David Benbennick and obtained from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Thumbs_up.jpg.

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