title: Cerebellopontine angle paraganglioma - report of a case and review of literature.
abstract: Majority of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors are acoustic neuromas, while bulk of the non-acoustic tumors are formed by meningiomas and epidermoid cysts. Primary paraganglioma is a rare tumor in this location, with only two such cases having been reported in the literature, till date. Recently, a case has been described wherein a paraganglioma was apparently arising as a primary lesion in the cerebellar hemisphere. We report another case of an intracranial paraganglioma of the CPA in a 40-year-old female, which did not have any vascular attachment but had focal cerebellar extension.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, 110029, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Prabal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Deb
authors.forename: Mehar Chand
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Shailesh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gaikwad
authors.forename: Aditya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Veer Singh
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: Chitra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sarkar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery