Functioning extra-adrenal paragangliomas |
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| Authors: | E M Bortolani P L Vandone P Pizzocari G Ghilardi |
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| Affiliation: | Istituto di Chirurgia Generale e Cardiovascolare, Università di Milano. |
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| Abstract: | The diagnosis of extra-adrenal paraganglioma requires the recognition of catecholamine hypertension and the site of the lesion. I-131-MIBG scintigraphy, CAT scan and angiography may localize primitive and metastatic lesions. Six cases of extra-adrenal paraganglioma (5 abdominal, 1 thoracic) surgically treated with complete resolution of the hypertensive state are presented here. |
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