Functional extra-adrenal paraganglioma of the retroperitoneum giving thoracolumbar spine metastases after a five-year disease-free follow-up: a rare malignant condition with challenging management

Paragangliomas are benign neoplasms that arise from the autonomic nervous system and the associated paraganglia. Although benign, they have been shown to possess metastatic potential. Extra-adrenal retroperitoneal paraganglioma with vertebral metastasis is considered very uncommon. Here, we present...

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Autores principales: Kapetanakis, Stylianos, Chourmouzi, Danai, Gkasdaris, Grigorios, Katsaridis, Vasileios, Eleftheriadis, Eleftherios, Givissis, Panagiotis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255564
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.94.13783

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