The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis

We report a case of a 51-year-old man who was diagnosed with systemic reactive (AA) amyloidosis in association with untreated glomus jugulare and glomus caroticum tumors. He refused radiotherapy and renal replacement therapy. Paragangliomas, although rare, should be considered one of the tumors that...

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Autores principales: Dervisoglu, Erkan, Ozturk, Murat, Tuncay, Mehmet, Dervisoglu, Gulhatun Kilic, Gurbuz, Yesim, Derin, Serhan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25838953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/250604
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author Dervisoglu, Erkan
Ozturk, Murat
Tuncay, Mehmet
Dervisoglu, Gulhatun Kilic
Gurbuz, Yesim
Derin, Serhan
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description We report a case of a 51-year-old man who was diagnosed with systemic reactive (AA) amyloidosis in association with untreated glomus jugulare and glomus caroticum tumors. He refused radiotherapy and renal replacement therapy. Paragangliomas, although rare, should be considered one of the tumors that can result in AA amyloidosis.
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spelling pubmed-43702352015-04-02 The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis Dervisoglu, Erkan Ozturk, Murat Tuncay, Mehmet Dervisoglu, Gulhatun Kilic Gurbuz, Yesim Derin, Serhan Case Rep Nephrol Case Report We report a case of a 51-year-old man who was diagnosed with systemic reactive (AA) amyloidosis in association with untreated glomus jugulare and glomus caroticum tumors. He refused radiotherapy and renal replacement therapy. Paragangliomas, although rare, should be considered one of the tumors that can result in AA amyloidosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4370235/ /pubmed/25838953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/250604 Text en Copyright © 2015 Erkan Dervisoglu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Dervisoglu, Erkan
Ozturk, Murat
Tuncay, Mehmet
Dervisoglu, Gulhatun Kilic
Gurbuz, Yesim
Derin, Serhan
The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis
title The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis
title_full The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis
title_fullStr The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis
title_full_unstemmed The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis
title_short The Hidden Cost of Untreated Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck: Systemic Reactive (AA) Amyloidosis
title_sort hidden cost of untreated paragangliomas of the head and neck: systemic reactive (aa) amyloidosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25838953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/250604
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