title: Suprasellar and sellar paraganglioma presenting as a nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenoma.
abstract: It is extremely rare for paragangliomas to be present in the brain. We present a 44-year-old man with a suprasellar-sellar paraganglioma encasing the internal carotid arteries. We review all such tumors reported in the literature and conclude that paraganglioma should be kept in the differential diagnosis of unusual suprasellar-sellar lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Lois Pope Life Center, 1095 NW 14th Terrace, D4-6, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
authors.forename: Nauman S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Chaudhry
authors.forename: Faiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: Clifford
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blieden
authors.forename: Jacques J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Morcos
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Diagnosis; Extra-adrenal; Paraganglioma; Sellar; Suprasellar