title: Retroperitoneal paraganglioma with metastasis to the abdominal vertebra: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Extra-adrenal paraganglioma of the retroperitoneum with metastasis to the vertebra is very rare. To our knowledge this is the first report of this kind of disease in the literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  Here, we present an oroginal case of paraganglioma of the retroperitoneum with metastasis to the abdominal vertebra in a 42-year-old female patient who was successfully treated by complete removal of the tumor and its metastasis. The patient was followed up for four years and remained disease-free.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our case demonstrated the need to consider paraganglioma of the retroperitoneum in the differential diagnosis of retroperitoneal mass, metastatic tumors to the vertebra, and the importance of radical surgery for a successful management of the disease.
  The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/1956611954880197.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Hunan Children Hospital, Changsha 41007, China. hejun1122@yahoo.cn
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Xingjun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Yaowang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D059146:Metastasectomy / Q000379:methods; D010027:Osteotomy; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography
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