Multiple malignant paragangliomas. A case report.
The extra-adrenal paraganglia may be divided into branchiomeric (parasympathetic) and paraxial or para-aortic (sympathetic) networks. A patient is described with two synchronous branchiomeric paragangliomas--a carotid body tumour (glossopharyngeal) and a cardiac chemodectoma (vagus). Both tumours were locally invasive and therefore, by definition, malignant.
Pantanowitz
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Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Sareli
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D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000473:pathology*; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000473:pathology*