title: Cardiac extrinsic neuropathy: Lesions of the mediastinal paraganglia in chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy.
abstract: The pathology of cardiac innervation, both intrinsic and external to the heart (mediastinal paraganglia included), is scarcely known, yet it can be critical to life-threatening disorders in cardiac performance or to reflexes discharging outside the heart, or both. This article focuses on such a fundamental and ill-understood subject through an anatomoclinical outlook of mediastinal paraganglia lesions in the setting of sudden death in chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy.
authors: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
authors: S G
authors: SG
authors: Ramos
authors: Institute of Anatomical Pathology, University of Milan, Italy.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Matturri
authors: Institute of Anatomical Pathology, University of Milan, Italy.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Rossi
authors: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Rossi