title: Management of a giant thoracic hypervascular paraspinal ganglioma.
abstract: We report a rare occurrence of a large primary nonfunctioning paraganglioma of the thoracic spine in a 76-year-old man who underwent successful multimodality treatment by preoperative angiographic embolization and debulking through a lateral transthoracic surgical approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital NHS, Imperial College Healthcare NHS, London, United Kingdom. m.nawaz@nhs.net
authors.forename: Muhammad Asghar
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nawaz
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Samarage
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.forename: Prakash
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Punjabi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed