title: Functionless non-chromaffin retroperitoneal paraganglioma causing cauda equina compression.
abstract: The authors describe a case of functionless non-chromaffin paraganglioma of the retroperitoneal space, that invaded the spinal canal causing a cross section syndrome of the cauda equina. The case is described because of the unusual clinical evolution of the tumour in question, never previously described.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002420:Cauda Equina / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009192:Myelography; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed